Bangladesh is an agricultural
country and potato is the most cultivated crop here and even worldwide.
But the production of potatoes is declining day by day due to various
potato leaf diseases which can result in significant environmental and
economic damage. It's difficult for farmers to find out which diseases
damaging crops because they tend to use the traditional approach and the
result is not accurate always. For that, it’s hard to take a decision
on which fertilizers to apply. This traditional approach is a more
time-consuming and slow process. To detect leaf diseases of potato at
the early stage, this study present a deep learning-based approach using
ResNet50. Using this technique, farmers can find out the actual
diseases of potato in a feasible, efficient and time-saving way at their
early stage and able to take fast decisions. That will help to grow
more potatoes. It can be ensured that this model can bring many benefits
in the agricultural field both economic and ecologic sides. This study
works on the most two common diseases of potato leaves including late
blight, early blight, and one healthy leaf. To find out the best model,
this study has chosen 3 neural networks. After analyzing CNN, VGG19, and
ResNet50 models get the accuracy according to 84%, 93%, and 97% for a
collection of 2,152 images. In this paper, ResNet50 model achieves the
highest accuracy.