Author：Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, COA

TARI (Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan) promotes "Smart Integrated Plant Disease and Pest Management Service" by connecting various resources from information platforms to create a fast and convenient mobile diagnosis mechanism using convenient communication tools as data reception and transmission.

This system provides farmers crop diseases and pests consulting service. When the system receives consulting cases, it can online contact suitable plant protection experts for this diagnosis task. Experts will provide proper suggestions for pesticide or herbicide based on the diagnostic result to ensure safe pesticide usage. Each district agricultural research and extension station in Taiwan can employ this system to establish together regional pest monitoring and control practice. It can help significantly slow down pest and disease damage and reduce farmers’ loss of income.