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E-FARMING
Sindhu M R, Aditya Pabshettiwar, Ketan.K.Ghumatkar, Pravin.H.Budhehalkar, Paresh.V.Jaju
G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering and Management, Pune, India

Abstract-Farming is the Prime Occupation in India in spite

of this, today the people involved in farming belongs to the
Farmers will get unique interface where they can avail
lower class and is in deep poverty. The Advanced techniques everything right from learning to the market information
and the Automated machines which are leading the world to they can perform marketing, get the current rates of
new heights, is been lagging when it is concerned to market, get in touch with SMS through the cell phones,
Farming, either the lack of awareness of the advanced can gather the knowledge of different schemes and apply
facilities or the unavailability leads to the poverty in as well as check status of application.
Farming. Even after all the hard work and the production This website will act as unique and secure way to
done by the farmers, in today’s market the farmers are perform agro-marketing.
cheated by the Agents, leading to the poverty. Agro-
marketing would make all the things automatic which make 3. EXISTING SYSTEM
easier serving as a best solution to all the problems.
E-farming will serve as a way for the farmers to sell their There is no computerized system for the farmer to
products across the country just with some basic knowledge sell their product. Currently, the farmer goes to nearest
about how to use the website. The site will guide the farmers market handover his product to a particular agent, agent
in all the aspects, the current market rate of different ask the farmer to visit the market after a specific time to
products, the total sale and the earned profit for the sold collect the cash earned out of the sold product. Agent
products, access to the new farming techniques through e- sells the product to another agent or a dealer at the cost of
learning and centralized approach to view different that market. Every Agent tries to cuts his commission out
government’s agriculture schemes including the
of that. There is no way for farmer to know about the deal
compensation schemes for farming. Getting availed to the
required information related to the markets and different
and the exact amount at which their product was sold.
products can be made possible through the SMS facility There is no transparency. No facility is present for
provided by the system. the farmers to know the product rates at different markets
Keywords:Website,farm-marketing,marketrate,bill,e- where they can sell their products for achieving high
learning,SMS facility profits.
Many times, farmers are not even aware of the
1. INTRODUCTION schemes and compensation provided by government. In
E-farming is the web application that will help the spite of all the opportunities banging the doors the
farmers to perform the agro-marketing leading to achieve farmers are not able to benefit out of those. Current
success and increase in their standard of living. The system does not provide the way of e-learning for farmer
Marketing facility would allow the farmers to have a that will provide the knowledge of new techniques in
view of the bills created and the related information in farming. So he doesn’t get the maximum profit through
their accounts. An Authorized-agent would serve as a the current system.
way for the farmers to sell their products in the market.
The Centralized market committee will have control on 4. E-FARMING
the Agents through business activities review. E-farming will provide unique ID to each user that
Website will also provide market-wise, commodity- can be used to perform agro-marketing and can apply for
wise report to the farmer in interactive way. In rural area, scheme.
the SMS facility would give the required market 4.1 Design and Architecture
information where internet cannot be availed. We describe the Algorithm, which is used to explain
Government will put forward the new schemes for how the system is going to work, i.e. the process logic
the farmers. Compensation will be provided for the behind it, the flowchart, which represents the pictorial
farmers in case of any loss to the production due to some representation of the process logic and finally the Data
natural calamities. Unique interface will be provided for Flow Diagram of the E-Farming.
applying and viewing the schemes 4.1.1 Algorithm
Farmers and the Agents will be provided with a There is no need of login for normal user who
Unique ID for logging into their accounts leading towards has the curiosity to know about the market information
secure access. and different schemes. Farmers who want to perform
marketing and apply for schemes must have the login
2. OJECTIVES username and password. Along with farmers, the agent
The main objective of this project is building a which will perform the selling of farmer’s product must
website which will help farmers from Indian villages to be authorized through the market committee for their
sell their products to different city markets. It is a license of marketing and after authorization, they will be
computerized approach for better and clear marketing. given authorized agent ID and password. During
authorization, Farmer need to provide his bank account

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number, names of product he farms, his personal details,

4.2 Applications
etc. This information can be used for various purposes of
 Provides user friendly site for the marketing
marketing.
purpose.
Once availed with the username and a password
 Has real time application in ‘krushi utpann bajar
for the website the users can perform different operations
like marketing, viewing the account information, samitte’ where actual marketing takes place.
checking the fund transfer after a sale.  One touch access to descent and accurate market
4.1.2 Flow Chart information.
The diagram (fig.2) has shown below gives some  Reduces the chances of corruption, inconvenience
basic description regarding the flow of the system. It will and uneasiness in viewing the market.
give an overview of the operations performed and where  Information on mobile by just sending specified
it goes after the operation has been performed. It shows keyword through SMS.
the different conditions like (“if else”) if one condition is  Easy and hassle free access as well as apply to the
not true then where the flow will return and from where schemes and compensation provided by
will it start again or where will the flow terminate after government.
some operation has been performed.  Agriculture education through E-learning.

4.3 Risks in implementation

Admin
 Lack of equality to access the internet in rural
Administrate and update site 1. Enter signup details
areas.
2. Click on submit
1. Enter signup details
 Reliability of information on the web.
2. Click on submit  Technophobia of new users.
E-Farming Agent
Farmer
4. Login with unique
4. Login with unique 5. Perform marketing action
5. METHODOLOGY
5. Request 6. Result and acknowledgement Following are the basic modules involve in project:
6. Result and acknowledgement  Account Generation: It includes the creation of
3. Check and assign unique
Grant or deny user
account, in which basic information of user, type
application of user, whether he is farmer, agent or Gov.
Govt. Authority Officer is submitted. Through this module, user
gets the Unique ID which serves as the identity
of user.
Figure1: Data Flow Diagram  Marketing: It includes Pricing, Billing and the
Fund Transfer. Pricing will show the farmer at
what price his commodity has been sold. Billing
will create the bill after getting request from
farmer for bill creation. Created bill will be
displayed on the page. Bill will consist of unit
price rate, total bill amount, commission of
agent, vehicle fare, other expenditure, etc.
Farmer can download or print the bill for future
reference. Using fund transfer, Agent can
transfer the invoice amount to farmers account
and farmer can check whether amount has been
transferred or not. One should be log in for using
this facility.
 Market Information: Farmer can see the market
information of nearby market. This will consist
of selling rates of different product, today’s
turnover, product-wise details like quantity,
Figure 2: Flow Chart
grading, selling cost, etc. It will give
commodity-wise, market-wise daily report,
commodity wise price during last week,
community transaction below MSP(maximum
sale price), date wise prices for specified
community. Farmer can also search for specific
product in particular duration of specific market.

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 SMS: Serves as an Alternate to get the market

 Validate farmer’s eligibility for compensation
information to the farmers through mobile. User
and schemes.
can get message related to specific commodity
by sending the keyword to the service number.  Provide the valid reason why the application for
 Compensation: It lists the packages provided by schemes if has not been granted.
government to the victim farmers of various  Invoke proper activity in response to valid
natural calamities like heavy rain, drought etc. complaints about agents.
They can apply for the same and can check the Scenario 4: Administrator
status of their application. Farmer can apply  Create and monitor accounts of users.
only after log in.  Maintain the website.
 Government Schemes: It lists all government  Provide the username and authorities as per user.
schemes related to particular product and area  Update the website.
and can apply in the same way as for
compensation. 6.2 Software implementation
 E-Learning: Includes Documentation, Videos Proposed application is web application build using
and Audios working as a helpdesk. It will jsp, servlet and db2 database. Software implementation is
educate farmers about new trends and as shown in below diagram.
techniques for farming as well as notice for
different workshops that will be conducted. User
can view as well as download the content.

6. IMPLEMENTATION
The system will be having only one User-name
and Password section on the front page, as per
the user-name and password the system will know
whether user is Farmer/Agent/Administrator/Gov.
Officer.
6.1 Scenario of Project
Scenario 1: Farmer
 Farmers can create new account, log-in to their
existing accounts which will give them the
authority to use the services provided by the
system.
 Authenticated farmers can sell their product,
claim the compensation from government and
can view his fund.  Software Interface:
 If user select as farmer then there is option to  Client on Internet: Web Browser, Operating
select whether he wants to take lesson or if he is System (any)
already familiar with online buying and selling  Client on Intranet: Web Browser, Operating
then he can directly go to sell his products. System (any)
 The Farmer can check their account on fund  Web Server: WASCE, Operating System
transfer. (any)
 Data Base Server: DB2, Operating System
Scenario 2: Authorized Agent (any)
 Agent sells the product to other agent or  Communication Interface:
wholesaler.  Client (customer) on Internet will be using
 Agent transfers the fund to farmer’s account as HTTP/HTTPS protocol.
per the product sale.  Client (system user) on Internet will be
using HTTP/HTTPS protocol
Scenario 3: Government Officer
 Central authorities can log-in to their accounts 6.3 Hardware implementation
as created by administrator. Weighting machine will be attached to the agent
 Authorities can access all the details of the machine that will automatically upload the weight of the
market in all the different tehsil, district. product in farmer’s invoice. Weighing instrument is
 They can view turnover of the market daily, attached to the microcontroller which will monitor the
weekly or monthly. activities of machine and provide the relevant data to the
agent’s computer.

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CONCLUSION
This project will be helpful for farmers to know
more about market information; will act as unique
interface of schemes and compensation. Through this
they will be always in touch of new technique and trends
of farming. But some extends, new user may feel some
kind of stress about its use. Overall this system is faster,
secure and comfortable.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We would like to thank our guide Mrs. M. R. Sindhu
and head of the department Mr S. S. Sambare for the
encouragement and support that they have extended. I
would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers who
provided helpful feedback on my manuscript.

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