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Subsistence farming plays a pivotal role in the socioeconomic development and food security of rural populations. Strategic application of information and communication technology (ICT) to agriculture industry offers great opportunities for economic growth and poverty alleviation. The aim of this work is to implement a mobile solution that provides a platform to enable both extension officers to communicate information on agricultural extension and collaborate on farming and irrigation techniques. In addition, the mobile phone application would assist in sharing market related information for buying, selling of their produce, weather, and finance related services, as well as training and employment opportunities. Being better informed, the local farming community would be able to make decisions that would ultimately lead to an improvement in their socioeconomic conditions. Thus, a survey was conducted with 93 farmers selected by random sampling in the Pongola region of Zululand district to establish the penetration of mobile phones. It was found that 94.6% of the farmers owned mobile phones varying in capabilities from simple to smart phones. Based on the findings of the survey, mobile phone application using Java platform was developed and deployed to the cloud. The users expressed satisfaction with the features and the functionalities of the developed system.
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After the contentious reforms framed by the government for farmers, their lives have been exacerbated. They are not able to get an equitable price for the production because of middlemen and their burgeoning commission. Apart from that, because of the lack of knowledge amongst the farmers about certain things like mercurial weather conditions in the monsoon, contamination of crops because of certain deleterious pesticides, queries regarding soil fertility etc. they have been suffering through huge losses financially as well as their productions are getting wasted. An idea is presented here which can help farmers get better prices for their produced goods excluding the middlemen and their hefty commissions. Also, legit advice from an expert can help farmers a lot to increase the production as well as financial losses can be prevented. In the proposed idea, an android mobile application developed in Android Studio, an official integrated development tool or environment for Google’s An...
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FarmManager: An Android Application for the Management of Small Farms
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Smart phone technology creates new opportunities for farm management applications in small farms. Farmers working on small farms are now able with a low cost smart phone and the specialized software (in our case FarmManager) to obtain facilities that couldn't have on their hands before. The use of the FarmManager software in a smart phone can overleap the high difficulties of farm management requirements which were stand as obstacle for many years so far. Tasks such as field definition, task operations, lists and reports and all farming use data can be submitted and carried on together in a smart phone at any farm working condition. In this paper we present the FarmManager which is an Android smart phone application and how it creates the management base for recording and browsing of ground fields, field relations (occupied or rented land), cultivation and its tasks, equipment, employees and European cultivations reports and all of them to be performed by the touch of smart phone screen button. The use of software is currently freely available and there are more than one thousand farmers using it in Greece.
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THE USAGE OF MOBILE APPS IN AGRICULTURE
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In India farmers have poor market infrastructure, inadequate marketing experience, and agricultural inputs. These farmers need to access information about new technologies before they can consider adopting them and thus look up to research and extension agents as sources of new technologies. Access to appropriate information and knowledge is an overriding factor for successful agricultural production and thus rural development. However, the traditional approach of providing agricultural information through extension services is overstretched and under-resourced. Accurate and timely market information, particularly of perishable items, can significantly reduce transaction and travel costs. Nowadays, the mobile apps have generated an opportunity for the farmers especially to get the information about marketing and weather. This important technology, they directly keep in touch with market personals and offer their produce with reasonable prices. The use of mobile apps also keep them aware for weather forecast for agriculture input application like fertilizer and pesticides which might be affected by unforeseen seen disasters as communicated by meteorological department. Based on above facts a study on the usage of mobile apps in agriculture was conducted. Two blocks namely Thogaimalai and Kulithalai were selected randomly in Karur District. The researcher found that farmers got more awareness about mobile apps. Through mobile apps they were getting agricultural and allied information on time. Many apps are being utilized for different kind of functionality regarding the farming activities like cropping information, pesticides, fertilizer, seed, selling of crop, irrigation information, estimation of crop production, weather information and information regarding the best practices of farming.
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In India most of the population is depending on agriculture and Farmer is the backbone of the Indian economy. The system consists of smartphone applications. The System can be used by farmers on the android application on mobile devices. The paper proposes the use of data mining to provide recommendations to farmers for crops, crop information, and identification of appropriate fertilizer. The smart-phone is used very commonly by everyone who is educated or non-educated. This application can provide different languages, which is Hindi and English this language commonly used and easy to use on the system.