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Design and Implementation of Online Farm

This document discusses the design and implementation of an online farm information management system. The system is intended to help local farmers market their farm products by allowing them to upload information about harvested goods for customers and retailers to see online. This helps address issues like farmers lacking effective marketing strategies, agricultural waste when products aren't sold, and customers not knowing what products are available. The system would provide a platform for customers to view product listings, place orders, pay online, and have items delivered, helping farmers increase their incomes and productivity through improved access to markets.

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Design and Implementation of Online Farm

This document discusses the design and implementation of an online farm information management system. The system is intended to help local farmers market their farm products by allowing them to upload information about harvested goods for customers and retailers to see online. This helps address issues like farmers lacking effective marketing strategies, agricultural waste when products aren't sold, and customers not knowing what products are available. The system would provide a platform for customers to view product listings, place orders, pay online, and have items delivered, helping farmers increase their incomes and productivity through improved access to markets.

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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE FARM INFORMATION

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY

Online Farm Information Management System is a web application

designed to assist local farmers in the area of farm products management,

that is, local farmers can make their farm products get to their target

customer or retailers using this “Online Farm Information Management

System as a medium of creating awareness and also to remind the

customers or retailers of any new farm products harvested that is ready for

marketing , through e-mail or SMS alert which is one of the modules of

Online Farm Information Management System. As individuals within a

society become more specialized in their economic activities, they come to

rely upon others to supply at least some of the products and services which

they need. Thus begins a process of exchange between buyers and sellers.

For a while buyers and sellers remain in immediate contact and each party

is able to determine what the other needs and values and, therefore, will
be willing to exchange. As the economy develops the number and types of

exchanges expand, there is a concomitant need for increasingly specialized

marketing services such as physical distribution, storage, grading, and

market information gathering and so. The number of participants also

increases with many of the specialized services being provided by

intermediaries between the seller and ultimate buyer. Few buyers and

sellers are in direct contact with one another and communication between

them is channeled through a complex marketing system, hence the need

for an online marketing and in this project research, an online means of

marketing where a farmer or group of peasant farmer upload their farm

products to the web for customers to see and buy with the information

provided by the farmer, such as location and when the products was

harvested.

Another important needs why I embarked on this project and which should

appear in the introductory part of this research is the idea on how to

minimize agricultural waste especially those produced by local peasant

farmers, who do not have access to effective marketing strategies.

Again, there are some agricultural farm products especially products like

vegetables, fruits, etc. that are mostly needed on a daily basis by the final
consumers and which often get wasted in the farm or in the location where

they were harvested and kept by this poor farmers, as a result of lack of

access to quick market. The final consumers who are in need of these

products may not know that such products have been harvested and it is

wasting somewhere in the farm. Therefore, this project research will serve

as an avenue of letting retailers and consumers know that such farm

products have been harvested and it is ready for marketing.

This project “Online Farm Information Management System” also provides

such platform where the customers or retailers can order for the products,

pay online and have the products delivered to their door steps.

In a nutshell, this project research is concerned with how to improve local

farmers’ productivities by providing an easy way of marketing their farm

products through online customers to farm producers’ interaction.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

 The existing internet based solution to agricultural products has not

really focus on how subsistence farmers can use the internet to

establish a farmer to consumer (customers) relationship, where farm


products meant for market can easily be disposed, thus providing

income for the farmer and improve farm productivity.

 Conventional or non-internet based market is not reliable enough to

let customers know when a given farm produce is ready for the

market.

 Local farmers continue to use old and obscure method of farming,

because agricultural extension agents, that should have introduced

current method of farming, could not get to the rural area where

most of these local farmers reside.

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