Expert systems can be effective tools for knowledge sharing in agriculture. They allow researchers and experts to document agricultural knowledge that can then be accessed by extension workers and farmers through applications like decision support systems. Expert systems integrate information from different sources and experts to provide recommendations for tasks like variety selection, farming practices, pest diagnosis and treatment. They can also be used as community knowledge bases where individual experts build systems in their areas of specialization. Overall, expert systems help address gaps in agricultural expertise and knowledge sharing.

1. EXPERT SYSTEMS IN AGRICULTURE
By
Maryam Hazman, PhD
Deputy Director
Central Laboratory of Agricultural Expert System, ARC
Scientific Research Group in Egypt
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2. Scientific Research Group in Egypt
www.egyptscience.net

3. Agenda
 Artificial Intelligence
 Expert System
 Diagnostic Expert System
 Expert System in Agriculture
 Expert System Application
 Decision Support Tool
 Community Knowledge Share Tool
 Automatic Control
 Conclusion
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4. Artificial Intelligence
 Artificial intelligence (AI) is the
study of how computers can
simulate, to some extent, human
activities such as thinking,
perceiving, learning and acting.
 AI systems are designed to
mimic the human capabilities of
thinking and sensing.
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5. Expert System
 Expert system (ES) is a branch of Artificial
Intelligence that uses knowledge and
problem solving techniques.
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6.  Expert System is
designed to hold the
accumulated knowledge
of one or more domain
experts. It simulates the
problem solving
behavior of an expert in
a narrow domain
Expert System
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7. Diagnostic Expert System
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8. Diagnostic Expert System
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9. Diagnostic Expert System
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10. Diagnostic Expert System
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11. Diagnostic Expert System
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12. Expert Systems in Agriculture
 Expert systems can be used as an effective tool
for knowledge documentation, transfer and
sharing.
 Gap of knowledge between researchers and
academics and extension or field workers or
growers.
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13. Expert System Application
 Decision support tool.
 Community knowledge share tool.
 Automatic control.
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14. Decision Support Tool
 Plant Farm Management:
 Varity selection
 Agricultural Practices: Land Preparation, Planting, Plant
Care, Fertilization, Irrigation, Harvest
 Animal Farm Management:
 Caring, Feeding
 Diagnosis and Treatment (Plant, Animal)
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15. Barely Varity Selection
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16. Wheat Fertilization
Back
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17. Wheat Irrigation
Back
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18. Poultry Caring
Back
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19. Rice Treatment
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20. Community Knowledge Share Tool
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21. Community Knowledge Share Tool
 Each expert builds his/her own system.
 Diagnosis specific disorders group.
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22. Community Knowledge Share Tool
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23. Automatic Control
 Develop machine that eliminate red palm weevil
based on expert systems technology.
 Control irrigation using an embedded expert
system.
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24.  Expert systems overcomes the aforementioned
problems:
 Integration of knowledge and experiences of different
specialties.
 Integration of information sources such as images, videos.
 The undocumented experience and knowledge.
 The lack of experts to support agricultural growers .
 Updating information (pesticides).
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25. Conclusion
Expert System can
 Use as a tool for organizing researchers knowledge.
 Use as a knowledge transfer and sharing tool.
 Use as a training tool.
 Use as a Decision support tool for assisting extension
officers and growers in their job.
 Allow environmentally and socially complementary control
to be used in production agriculture
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26. Thanks