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Business Ideas/Agritech/Ethiopia · Tanzania
Two African labs built crop disease models that run on a phone with no signal. The business is not the model, it is the shop counter where a dealer guesses today.
An offline crop disease model scored 97.3 percent on cactus-fig photos taken at university test plots. No farmer has ever used it, and the paper describes that figure two different ways.
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A team at Mekelle University in Ethiopia photographed 3,587 cactus-fig pads and trained three models on them. The best scored 97.3 percent and fits in 9.3 MB.