DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AUTOMATED INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT

AGRO INFO APP

Abstract

Agriculture sector commonly utilizes broadcast media, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, individuals, gatherings and seminars to manage information. Sometimes information is collected manually using printable forms and complaints are tabled through extension workers. This comes with challenges of delayed reporting, analysis and dissemination of information to stakeholders. 
The main objective of this paper is to implement an Agricultural automated information system for  effective information management. Water fall development approach was used as a development method. Tools used in this development method include; interactive Gantt charts, drag-and-drop tools for easy adjustment and adaptation to unforeseen events, HTML for structuring, PHP for a server side scripting, Javascripting (jQuery) for controls, MSQL for database development, Xampp server, bootstrap for styling and Dreamweaver code editor.
These result show that the problem of lack of appropriate and easily accessible agriculture information system can be solved using a system. After the development of the system, information about famers’ profile who had registered, different pests and diseases that affect agriculture, service providers, and farm inputs as well as other information can be viewed and their locations easily identified.
The country can adopt the system so as to have a database that contains all famers’ information and provide a platform that would seamless access to improved and organized agricultural information and communication dissemination system