This chapter reviews literature related to information systems for poultry farm management. It discusses previous research on using information systems as a competitive advantage for poultry farms. It also examines tools, poultry farming practices, poultry hatcheries, web-based hatchery management systems, and computer-based information systems. The literature identifies weaknesses in manual poultry management systems that motivated the development of a new web-based poultry management information system.
This chapter reviews literature related to information systems for poultry farm management. It discusses previous research on using information systems as a competitive advantage for poultry farms. It also examines tools, poultry farming practices, poultry hatcheries, web-based hatchery management systems, and computer-based information systems. The literature identifies weaknesses in manual poultry management systems that motivated the development of a new web-based poultry management information system.
This chapter reviews literature related to information systems for poultry farm management. It discusses previous research on using information systems as a competitive advantage for poultry farms. It also examines tools, poultry farming practices, poultry hatcheries, web-based hatchery management systems, and computer-based information systems. The literature identifies weaknesses in manual poultry management systems that motivated the development of a new web-based poultry management information system.
This chapter reviews literature related to information systems for poultry farm management. It discusses previous research on using information systems as a competitive advantage for poultry farms. It also examines tools, poultry farming practices, poultry hatcheries, web-based hatchery management systems, and computer-based information systems. The literature identifies weaknesses in manual poultry management systems that motivated the development of a new web-based poultry management information system.
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CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
Introduction This chapter presents documented evidence and ideas from other researchers whose work is relevant to this project’s context. It looks at different sources where the researcher borrowed constructive ideas considered important for fulfillment of this study.
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW:
Here is refers to the knowledge of the past researchers in relation to the study; this can also be defined as artificial examination of the existing literature’s objective to the subject of investigation and how to improve information system.
This chapter also describes the related information of approaches of collecting information in using information system as a competitive advantage on other poultry farm system. How to improve on information system for competitive advantage on booking reservation system for chicks previously published journals, dissertations and related documentations like books will be viewed.
2.1 Tool A tool is a program or application that software developers use to create, debug, maintain or otherwise support other programs and application.
2.2 Poultry: Chicken broilers and egg production are most progressive animal enterprises in African today. The poultry industry in fact began as a backyard enterprise but shifted to the information of that very large integrated contract farming operations. The growth of tile poultry industry in the Ghana has indeed been impressive but its problem including inefficient management and the prevalence of many destructive poultry diseases and parasites cannot be ignored. This manual provides technology and management know how for poultry raising which we hope present poultry raisers and prospective poultry producers may find it useful in effectively managing their poultry farms and help realize substantial financial returns from their enterprise in this period of high production cost inputs. Poultry provide employment to many people and has contribution about 1000 Ghana farmers. Many Ghana farmers indeed have been able to get employment although most of Ghanaians poultry farms are poultry on small scale. According to agricultural products. www.moisturemeter.Draminsk.com.poultry is another term for domesticated fowl (birds), these are birds for eggs and food such as chicken, turkey, goose and pigeon. Basically, any bird that you would eat.
2.3 Poultry Farming:
Poultry farming is the raising of chicken, turkey, ducks and other fowl for meat or eggs production. Poultry farms can be breeding farms where they raise poultry for meat or both layers farms where they produce eggs most especially the best breeds depend on what you want from them. Good egg layers are (brown eggs) and great meat comes from Arbor Acres, Ross and Peterson chickens which were named after the breeders who raised them. Same hens are raised for eggs production and meatiness. New Hampshire, Plymouth Rocks and Wandotts are good ones, but all breeds are not known by Ghanaian farmers.
In the old times poultry farming was the farmer’s wife throwing some feed out to the chickens who were wandering, loose around the yard. She would find the eggs wherever they might be laid before they got rotten. Today poultry raising is big business. Each step is done by someone who know what they are doing. Breeders are known for their special kind of chickens and no one is allowed to copy them. Food costs are important to poultry farmers. Feeds is about 60% of raising poultry fowl are usually fed a combination of maize, soya, rice grain and cereals, poultry is mostly used for meat and eggs, but other products come from these animals.
2.4 Poultry Hatchery
Poultry hatchery is the process of gathering parent eggs that are kept in place for specialized period of time to be ready for hatching .According to www.meyerhatchery.com poultry hatchery has a full featured poultry management information system software with user friendly interfaces which allows you to manage your hatchery efficiently. It is tailored specifically for hatcheries which is affordable, powerful and easy to use. However, it was not catered for booking which gave me courage to go ahead and concentrate on the poultry management system.
Electronic chicks’ poultry hatchery system:
This is to help in record keeping but also act as decision making tool. Poultry software application covers all aspects of hatchery from housing of day old chick to eggs laying birds to preparing of eggs to hatching of chicks. On the talk about hatchery of eggs in an incubator or under a hen are an exciting project and shopping for chicks and other baby poultry at farm. But you can order baby chicks to be shipped from poultry hatchery mail too this great way to find some usual breeds or verities. This process does not cater for our poor farmers since it involves shipping expenses and also very expensive this also forced me to go and design system that can favour Ghanaian farmers for poultry chicks’ rears. There are some complete projects that one should refer on for more information about poultry management. Poultry genetic library of pathogens, food safety and vaccine reduce salmonelia in poultry and corn improving nutritional value.
2.5 Web-based Poultry Hatchery Management System
hatchery management system was design to record all the transactions and activities involved in hatchery these solution integrates flock performance, purchase, sale, expenses, feed formation, feed production and accounting depending on geographical adapted by the hatchery management.
A separate module is included in these system to develop cost effective formula (HMS) keep tract of hatcheries comparisons, virtual hatchery employee details selling detail sale reports for each and identity performance problems early and correct action can be taken before the performance is adversely affected.
2.6 Computer-based Information System
According to Klien (2002) the field of information has been around since 1970’s and has been evolving ever since. It formed the Nexus of computers seine, management and organization theory opinion research and accounting. Each of these areas or disciplines that brought a unique perspective to the application of computers in organizations, but each was also far a broader to orientation especially on the application of computer-based information system which was adopted in addressing organization. Although a computer based information system was adopted in addressing the problem of poultry records management, it was developed on such a way that it is able to efficiently handle large volume of data without disrupting daily records routines.
2.7 Web Application Technologies.
Since the system is web based, a web application that run on web server and is accessed by users over the internet or local internet. A web Brower is commonly used as a thin client hence all the processing is done on the server. Web application usually organized a user in three tier architecture; a user interface level, functional process logic and data storage level according to Ashurt and Doherty (2004) he gave a clear analysis of information system as a trend which means that the introduction upon the design of the business the economic performance and working conditions of member of staff, technical change is the catalyst for organizational change.
According to Benfley 2007 a database is collection of interrelated activates. a database is
collection of files that are intended to be concise source of data for a variety of users and variety of applications Markass 2006. Service oriented web applications are extension of a web application are either service or presentation oriented. A presentation oriented web application produces interactive web pages containing markup language like (XML,HTML)and dynamic content in response to request.
2.8. Web based information system.
These are systems that will provide up to product and support information available to the existing and emerging channels. Prerequisite of this is to support the process of creating all types of information managing and making them available on timely and cost-effective basis for all people in the information chain.
In conclusion the existence of manual system of poultry management system has weakness that influenced the researcher to propose the new web-based poultry management information system.
