Design and rules development of Expert System for Diagnosing Oyster Mushroom Diseases

Mushroom industry can contribute for Malaysian economy. It used cheap man power in production and cultivation areas and has good potential market too. For this reason this research correlation across discipline between agriculture and computer science in order to contribute in technical information transfer. Thus, in this paper, our objective is to develop a set of rules that can be used to diagnose Oyster Mushroom diseases. In the near future, we will develop an Expert System for Diagnosing Oyster Mushroom Diseases to assist person involved in mushroom production and cultivation in diagnosing the diseases cause by mold, bacteria, virus, insects and other pests.