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Development of a Muga Disease Early Warning System – A Mobile-Based Service for Seri Farmers


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1 North Eastern Space Applications Centre, Department of Space, Umiam 793 103, India
2 Central Muga Eri Research and Training Institute, Central Silk Board, Lahdoigarh, Jorhat 785 700, India
 

Flacherie is a major bacterial disease causing >40% loss during Muga summer crops. For finding the ischolar_main causes of the diseases, relationships were established between rearing and production data corresponding to land use/land cover, land surface temperature and meteorological parameters. Adverse affects were found in farms associated with anthropogenic activities, in contrast to forest cover which shows a negative trend. Muga disease early warning system, a mobile-based application and dashboard has been developed to predict rate of flacherie infestation at least 5–10 days in advance, for proper precautionary measures by the farmers to avoid disease outbreak and crop loss

Keywords

Crop Loss, Early Warning System, Flacherie Disease, Mobile-Based Service, Muga Silkworm, Remote Sensing. Muga Silkworm.
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Authors

J. Goswami
North Eastern Space Applications Centre, Department of Space, Umiam 793 103, India
D. K. Gogoi
Central Muga Eri Research and Training Institute, Central Silk Board, Lahdoigarh, Jorhat 785 700, India
N. Rasid
North Eastern Space Applications Centre, Department of Space, Umiam 793 103, India
B. K. Handique
North Eastern Space Applications Centre, Department of Space, Umiam 793 103, India
G. Subrahmanyam
Central Muga Eri Research and Training Institute, Central Silk Board, Lahdoigarh, Jorhat 785 700, India
P. P. Bora
Central Muga Eri Research and Training Institute, Central Silk Board, Lahdoigarh, Jorhat 785 700, India
R. Das
Central Muga Eri Research and Training Institute, Central Silk Board, Lahdoigarh, Jorhat 785 700, India
P. L. N. Raju
North Eastern Space Applications Centre, Department of Space, Umiam 793 103, India

Abstract


Flacherie is a major bacterial disease causing >40% loss during Muga summer crops. For finding the ischolar_main causes of the diseases, relationships were established between rearing and production data corresponding to land use/land cover, land surface temperature and meteorological parameters. Adverse affects were found in farms associated with anthropogenic activities, in contrast to forest cover which shows a negative trend. Muga disease early warning system, a mobile-based application and dashboard has been developed to predict rate of flacherie infestation at least 5–10 days in advance, for proper precautionary measures by the farmers to avoid disease outbreak and crop loss

Keywords


Crop Loss, Early Warning System, Flacherie Disease, Mobile-Based Service, Muga Silkworm, Remote Sensing. Muga Silkworm.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv121%2Fi10%2F1328-1334