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arxiv: 2507.22101 · v2 · submitted 2025-07-29 · 💻 cs.CV

AI in Agriculture: A Survey of Deep Learning Techniques for Crops, Fisheries and Livestock

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A review of over 200 studies examines deep learning for detecting crop diseases, managing livestock health, and monitoring aquatic species.

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This survey compiles findings from more than 200 research papers on artificial intelligence in agriculture. It focuses on conventional machine learning and advanced deep learning methods, including vision transformers and vision-language models like CLIP. The work addresses key tasks in crops, fisheries, and livestock while covering implementation challenges like data variability. Readers would find value in its overview of datasets, metrics, and suggested future research paths for sustainable food production.

Core claim

The paper establishes that a systematic review of more than 200 works reveals the application of machine learning, deep learning techniques such as vision transformers, and recent vision-language foundation models in agriculture for tasks including crop disease detection, livestock health management, and aquatic species monitoring, along with discussions on challenges, datasets, performance metrics, geographical focus, and open research directions.

What carries the argument

The systematic and thorough review of more than 200 research works that covers conventional machine learning approaches, advanced deep learning techniques, and vision-language foundation models applied to agriculture tasks.

If this is right

  • The survey identifies major implementation challenges such as data variability and experimental aspects including datasets and performance metrics.
  • It points toward multimodal data integration as a needed step for better AI performance in agriculture.
  • Efficient edge-device deployment is presented as essential for practical use in farming settings.
  • Domain-adaptable AI models are required to handle diverse farming environments across regions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This overview could help connect AI methods to specific regional challenges in food production that vary by climate and resources.
  • Real-world testing of the reviewed models in new geographical areas might expose performance gaps not detailed in the current selection.
  • Linking these techniques to broader sustainability efforts could show how AI supports long-term resource management beyond the three sectors covered.

Load-bearing premise

The more than 200 selected research works are assumed to offer comprehensive and representative coverage of the field without significant omissions in tasks, regions, or recent advances.

What would settle it

Discovery of a large body of relevant studies on AI applications in crops, fisheries, or livestock that were not included in the survey, or major recent developments overlooked in the review.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2507.22101 by Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Hisham Cholakkal, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman Khan, Ufaq Khan, Umair Nawaz.

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Figure 2. Figure 2: Different downstream tasks in crops, fisheries, and livestock [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Taxonomy of this survey. AI applications in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Tasks in the crop domain include anomaly detection for early [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Visualization of the main challenges faced when implementing [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Sample images taken from some of the publicly available datasets used in agriculture. Here, ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Illustration of various AI tasks in marine life analysis, including [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Illustration of major challenges such as high infrastructure costs, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Different tasks used in managing livestock health and behavior, including image classification to identify species or health status, object [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Challenges in the livestock domain include data scarcity, noisy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_10.png] view at source ↗
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Crops, fisheries and livestock form the backbone of global food production, essential to feed the ever-growing global population. However, these sectors face considerable challenges, including climate variability, resource limitations, and the need for sustainable management. Addressing these issues requires efficient, accurate, and scalable technological solutions, highlighting the importance of artificial intelligence (AI). This survey presents a systematic and thorough review of more than 200 research works covering conventional machine learning approaches, advanced deep learning techniques (e.g., vision transformers), and recent vision-language foundation models (e.g., CLIP) in the agriculture domain, focusing on diverse tasks such as crop disease detection, livestock health management, and aquatic species monitoring. We further cover major implementation challenges such as data variability and experimental aspects: datasets, performance evaluation metrics, and geographical focus. We finish the survey by discussing potential open research directions emphasizing the need for multimodal data integration, efficient edge-device deployment, and domain-adaptable AI models for diverse farming environments. Rapid growth of evolving developments in this field can be actively tracked on our project page: https://github.com/umair1221/AI-in-Agriculture

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript is a survey paper claiming to provide a systematic review of more than 200 research works on AI applications in agriculture. It covers conventional machine learning, deep learning techniques including vision transformers, and recent vision-language models such as CLIP, with focus on tasks like crop disease detection, livestock health management, and aquatic species monitoring. The survey also addresses implementation challenges including data variability, datasets, performance metrics, and geographical focus, and concludes with open research directions such as multimodal integration, edge deployment, and domain-adaptable models.

Significance. If the claimed systematic coverage is verified and representative, the survey would offer a useful synthesis of AI progress across crops, fisheries, and livestock, helping to consolidate knowledge on the shift from CNNs to foundation models while highlighting practical challenges and future needs in sustainable agriculture.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that the work constitutes a 'systematic and thorough review of more than 200 research works' is load-bearing for the paper's validity, yet the abstract supplies no details on the review methodology (databases queried, keyword strings, date range, inclusion/exclusion criteria, or PRISMA-style selection flow). Without this information it is impossible to evaluate selection bias, coverage gaps across tasks/regions/techniques, or whether recent advances and underrepresented geographies have been omitted.
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  1. The abstract references a GitHub project page for tracking rapid developments; consider adding a brief description of how this resource relates to the static survey content.

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We thank the referee for their detailed and constructive feedback on our survey manuscript. We address the major comment point by point below, with a commitment to revisions that improve transparency while preserving the paper's contributions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that the work constitutes a 'systematic and thorough review of more than 200 research works' is load-bearing for the paper's validity, yet the abstract supplies no details on the review methodology (databases queried, keyword strings, date range, inclusion/exclusion criteria, or PRISMA-style selection flow). Without this information it is impossible to evaluate selection bias, coverage gaps across tasks/regions/techniques, or whether recent advances and underrepresented geographies have been omitted.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by briefly summarizing the systematic review methodology to enhance transparency and allow readers to assess potential biases and coverage. The full manuscript contains a dedicated 'Review Methodology' section that details the databases queried (IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, and arXiv), the keyword strings and Boolean combinations used, the date range (primarily 2015–2024 with updates for recent works), the inclusion/exclusion criteria, and a PRISMA-style flow diagram illustrating the selection of over 200 papers. To directly address this concern, we will revise the abstract to include a concise statement on the review protocol and process. This revision will be incorporated in the next version of the manuscript. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: literature survey with no derivations or fitted predictions

full rationale

This is a literature review surveying more than 200 existing works on AI applications in agriculture. It contains no mathematical derivations, first-principles results, predictions, or parameter fits that could reduce to inputs by construction. The central claim of systematic coverage is a statement of review scope rather than a derived quantity; no equations, self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked to justify or force any result. The work is self-contained as a descriptive survey without reducing any claim to self-referential parameters or fitted inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

As a survey paper, the work does not introduce new free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; it relies on the standard assumption that a literature review can usefully synthesize prior publications.

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