Is cereal a soup?

Daily Debate #560: "Is cereal a soup?". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Aristotle.

I have a hackathon idea, Indonesia has a problem in their agricultural sector. Farmers tend to use a huge amount of pesticide just to remove one specified area of pest. They need to buy it just in accordance of the amount of the land they use to farm. what if using web application i can help solve this problem, by using their phone they could take a photo where it would be turned into Hyperspectral camera using deeplearning. and by taking 20 to 30 photo it would create 3d model into the web and could visualize it easily for farmers to see which area actually need to be sprayed with pesticide, and after they input the size area of that part, it could give them an estimate of how much pesticide they actually need. This software could reduce the amount of pesticide being used and will inevitably help sustainability and make farmers profits better because they buy less pesticide.

Hold on—you're solving a problem that doesn't exist the way you think it does. Farmers *know* where pests are. They see their fields every day. The real barrier isn't information, it's that pesticide costs almost nothing compared to labor. Your app saves them maybe 20% on chemicals but costs them hours of photography, processing, and learning new tech. A busy farmer in rural Indonesia doesn't have time for thirty photos and 3D models when spraying the whole field takes an afternoon. Why would they adopt it?

huge dose of pesticide will make environment collapse, there is ahuge uproar in indonesia about how Sawit plant is destroying environment. one of the reason was because they use insane amount of pesticide and it ended up poisoning the nearby water.

You're conflating two problems. Yes, pesticide runoff is real—but your app doesn't fix that because farmers *want* to spray everything. It's cheaper than hiring scouts. You're asking them to adopt expensive tech to solve a problem they profit from ignoring. Unless you make precision spraying *cheaper* than blanket spraying, adoption stays zero. What changes their financial incentive?

it is not expensive at all as they can take the photo through their phone and increase their profit at the same time, it can also help environment this way which is better

Your math doesn't work. Processing 20-30 photos into 3D models requires server costs you're not mentioning. Who pays that—you forever? Farmers won't pay monthly fees to save pesticide they barely buy. Where's your sustainable revenue model?