Crop diseases pose significant threats to global food security, agricultural
productivity, and sustainable farming practices, directly affecting farmers'
livelihoods and economic stability. To address the growing need for effective
crop disease management, AI-based disease alerting systems have emerged as
promising tools by providing early detection and actionable insights for timely
intervention. However, existing systems often overlook critical aspects such as
data privacy, market pricing power, and farmer-friendly usability, leaving
farmers vulnerable to privacy breaches and economic exploitation. To bridge
these gaps, we propose AgriSentinel, the first Privacy-Enhanced Embedded-LLM
Crop Disease Alerting System. AgriSentinel incorporates a differential privacy
mechanism to protect sensitive crop image data while maintaining classification
accuracy. Its lightweight deep learning-based crop disease classification model
is optimized for mobile devices, ensuring accessibility and usability for
farmers. Additionally, the system includes a fine-tuned, on-device large
language model (LLM) that leverages a curated knowledge pool to provide farmers
with specific, actionable suggestions for managing crop diseases, going beyond
simple alerting. Comprehensive experiments validate the effectiveness of
AgriSentinel, demonstrating its ability to safeguard data privacy, maintain
high classification performance, and deliver practical, actionable disease
management strategies. AgriSentinel offers a robust, farmer-friendly solution
for automating crop disease alerting and management, ultimately contributing to
improved agricultural decision-making and enhanced crop productivity.