ABSTRACT
With the growing population in the world, demand for various types of vegetables and crops is increasing. For this reason, farmers are constantly using different fertilizers, pesticides, and other chemicals to increase crop yield. Although this may increase productivity, the quality of the crop is getting decreased day by day due to excessive use of pesticides. While harvesting, the pesticides that were used by the farmers get stored in the vegetables. A large number of fertilizers and pesticides set foot in the food chain and finally cause biological magnifications. People consume the same food and this affects their health in a noxious way. So, there is a need for one device that could detect these chemicals and pesticides. By using this device consumers can get to know the amount of pesticide that a product contains. This chapter consists of an electronic device that can detect the 182pesticides present in vegetables with the help of infrared light. This device would show the amount of pesticide present in the food. The consumer can use the pesticide’s data as a benchmark to buy the eatable things that are fit to eat. In this chapter NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetable Index) method is used to detect the presence of pesticides, and also an application is designed to store and show the data having the amount of pesticide present in a particular edible thing. The data can be easily sharable by using the application to agricultural organizations, food inspection departments and can maintain the pesticide detection records.
