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\section{Abstract}  The Philippine Bureau of Agricultural Research reported that farms lose 20\% to 30\% of cacao pods, and up to 10\% of trees annually due to various cacao pests and diseases. To reduce the damage, farmers and agricultural technicians regularly monitor the well-being of their crops. But at present they rely on visual inspection to assess the degree of infestation of their crops, resulting to several errors and inconsistencies due to the subjective nature of the assessment procedure. To improve the inspection procedure, this research extended the work of Dubey et al. \cite{dubey2013infected}, on infected fruit part segmentation using K-Means algorithm, to create a framework for measuring the level of infestation on the cacao pods.  \todo dfgfg \todo{Discuss Methodology and Results}  %%This tool is intended to provide a quick, accurate, and objective evaluation of cacao pods requiring minimal human interaction.%%