Development of High-Fidelity DenseNet Framework for Multi-Disease Real-Time Crop Health Surveillance and Farming Recommendation in Maize (Zea Maize) Cultivation in Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.33003/fjs-2026-1013-5595Keywords:
Deep Learning, DenseNet-121, Maize Disease Detection, 4IRAbstract
In Nigeria, maize is the most widely cultivated grain, largely supporting food security for about half of the population. Research has indicated that there is annual production is declaiming to approximately 50% in maize, this is due to crop diseases and pest damage. This research presents a deep learning surveillance system for crop disease prediction and pesticides recommendations based on a DenseNet-121 architecture for continuous video streams. The research was evaluated on a curated field dataset collected from three states in Nigeria; Adamawa, Borno, and Taraba State. The system achieved a mean accuracy of 98.2% and a mean F1-score of 0.982. The results reflect a strong discriminative capacity across the diverse textural maize diseases.
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