Enhancing Arecanut Farming Profits through Technological Advancements: A CNN-based Approach for Efficient Grading and Sorting

Technological advancements can have powerful impact on the economic growth of agriculture in India. Areca nut farming is one such terrain of agriculture where investment in technology and automation can elevate the profit from farming by bringing down production cost. Areca nut is the major crop of Karnataka having roots in fifteen different districts. The grading and sorting of areca nuts is an important step in the production of areca nuts and is traditionally done by man power. People are trained to identify good and bad areca nuts, but the time taken for sorting areca nuts is more and it is not feasible for a large quantity of areca nuts. In order to minimize the time consumed, this method is introduced which classify the areca nuts into four different grades based on their quality.