Data has been collected from farmers since 2018. Some of that data was collected using a dedicated data collection app. Most of it, however, was collected from the app itself; making the dataset unique among other farm pest datasets. There are approximately 13 000 images.

Positive images are indicated by a 1 in the training set. These are images that contain at least one bollworm on an insect card. Negative images are images that do not have a bounding box and cannot be used to count the number of bollworms per card.

The objective of this competition is to create a machine learning model that classifies images as positive or negative. This model will form one part of the greater solution to control bollworm pests in India delivered by the Wadhwani AI app.

This is a negative image.

This is a postive image with 6 pink bollworm and 6 American bollworm.