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Rice is widely cultivated economical crop in the world. During cultivation the earliest and accurate diagnosis of the rice plant diseases able to reduce the damage, resulting environment protection and better return. In the work, an automated system has been developed to classify the leaf brown spot and the leaf blast diseases of rice plant based on the morphological changes of the plants caused by the diseases. Radial distribution of the hue from the center to the boundary of the spot images has been used as features to classify the diseases by Bayes' and SVM Classifier. The system has been validated using 1000 test spot images of infected rice leaves collected from the field, gives 79.5% and 68.1% accuracies for Bayes' and SVM Classifier based system respectively.

BACKGROUND The socio‐economic status of the countries is ever‐changing due to the increasing population. ‘Green Revolution’, a paradigm shift towards technology driven agriculture, has ensured a good quality of life to some extent for this increasing population. However, it brings in several negative impacts on the environment, which poses a threat to the sustainability of agriculture and natural resources. Precision agriculture (PA) is a state‐of‐the‐art concept of site‐specific farm management that helps to overcome this threat in a smart way using modern information and communication technologies. It reduces the indecorous use of resources, pollution and hence improves quality of life, which in turn helps to achieve sustainable development goals. RESULTS The objective of this systematic review is to understand the present status, benefits, and limitations of the state‐of‐the‐art technologies used in PA. A total 67 articles are identified following the PRISMA guideline to inspect the technical innovations at different components of PA. The articles are examined based on the novelties, measured parameters, technologies, and field of applications. CONCLUSION This analysis results in a significant understanding about the present knowledge gap and identification of the potential future research opportunities for sustainable agronomy. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry

Learning through the internet becomes popular that facilitates learners to learn anything, anytime, anywhere from the web resources. Assessment is most important in any learning system. An assessment system can find the self-learning gaps of learners and improve the progress of learning. The manual question generation takes much time and labor. Therefore, automatic question generation from learning resources is the primary task of an automated assessment system. This paper presents a survey of automatic question generation and assessment strategies from textual and pictorial learning resources. The purpose of this survey is to summarize the state-of-the-art techniques for generating questions and evaluating their answers automatically.

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