This document presents a novel machine learning approach for detecting and classifying sugarcane plant diseases using discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Existing methods use MATLAB and support vector machines with limited accuracy. The proposed method uses DWT for image segmentation to identify affected plant regions. It acquires images, pre-processes for noise reduction, segments using edge detection, extracts features from regions of interest, classifies diseases, and detects diseases based on image analysis and classification. The goal is to more accurately detect diseases early to control crop damage and losses. A dataset of 13 sugarcane diseases is used to evaluate the approach.