What to do when you encounter pests? The Agricultural Research Institute's smart platform chatbot helps you identify insects

Pest problems that plague farmers can now be researched with the help of a Line chatbot! The Agricultural Research Institute of the Council of Agriculture has established a smart pest platform and a Facebook fan page, as well as a chatbot, so farmers can go online at any time to look up complete pest information.

Yao Meiji, an associate researcher at the Agricultural Research Institute who is responsible for developing the system, said that it was developed in response to farmers' query needs. At present, citrus pest information has been fully built, and rice pests are expected to be added this year. Researchers at the Agricultural Research Institute and crop pest experts from various agricultural improvement stations are also being invited to help build it together, and farmers can also upload photos, so the system will become more and more complete.