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The current approaches to automated crop disease recognition face challenges such as limited datasets, restricted coverage of disease types, and inefficient feature extraction, which hinder their generalization across diverse crops and disease patterns. To address these challenges, we propose an efficient data augmentation method to enhance the performance of deep learning models for crop disease recognition. By constructing a new large-scale dataset comprising 24 different classes, including both fruit and leaf samples, we intend to handle a variety of disease patterns and improve model generalization capabilities. Geometric transformations and color space augmentation techniques are applied to validate the efficiency of deep learning models, specifically convolution and transformer models, in recognizing multiple crop diseases. The experimental results show that these augmentation techniques improve classification accuracy, achieving F1 scores exceeding 98%. Feature map analysis further confirms that the models effectively capture key disease characteristics. 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