Deep Dilated CNN–BiLSTM for Intelligent Crop Seed Recommendation in Fertile Regions of Maharashtra
摘要
Crop recommendation systems are essential components of modern agriculture, contributing directly to enhanced economic growth and agricultural productivity. Contemporary farming faces significant challenges due to climatic volatility, natural disasters, and suboptimal cultivation practices, necessitating the development of highly efficient predictive models. This research proposes a novel framework, the Deep Dilated Convolution Based Deep Attention BiLSTM Network DC-DA-B-Net, designed for the precise prediction of optimal crops for specific locations within Maharashtra. The methodology begins by acquiring real-time environmental data, characterized by four distinct attributes, which then undergoes pre-processing including missing value imputation and data normalization. The DC-DA-B-Net model is structured for efficient prediction: it leverages Dilated CNN for robust Convolutional Neural Network CNN feature extraction, enabling an expanded receptive field without increasing computational overhead. These processed features are then fused with subsequent layers via a skip connection strategy. The fused output is directed into a deep Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory BiLSTM network, followed by an attention mechanism to weigh the importance of features across the temporal sequence. The network is finalized by computing and updating the Softmax and Center Loss functions to drive an effective final crop prediction decision. Utilizing the python simulation tool, the DC-DA-B-Net successfully attained a high prediction accuracy of 98.2%, Precision 98.0%, Recall 97.6%, F1-Measure 98.1%, and the Kappa statistic 97.4%, confirming its superior performance for agricultural recommendation tasks.