An Expert System development: Its application on Diagnosing Oyster Mushroom Diseases

This paper present a research and development of an expert system for application on diagnosing diseases by employing expert system technique in agriculture domain. Hence, an Expert System for Diagnosing Oyster Mushroom Diseases was proposed for this research. This system enables user to recognize diseases cause by mold, bacteria, virus, insects and other pests faced by mushroom farm owner through online expert system. In addition, the system provide user advises or treatments in for specified mushroom diseases in shorter time period. User will answer questions based on the mushroom condition and symptoms. It will then helps in detecting the related diseases and provide treatment suggestion. A rule based and forward chaining inference engine has been used for the development of the system. With this system, it helps and allows user in diagnosing mushroom diseases via online system and provide useful suggestion to user.