E-FARMING

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 everything right from learning to the market information
techniques and the Automated machines which are leading they can perform marketing, get the current rates of
the world to new heights, is been lagging when it is market, get in touch with SMS through the cell phones,
concerned to Farming, either the lack of awareness of the can gather the knowledge of different schemes and apply
advanced facilities or the unavailability leads to the as well as check status of application.
poverty in Farming. Even after all the hard work and the This website will act as unique and secure way to
production done by the farmers, in today’s market the perform agro-marketing.
farmers are cheated by the Agents, leading to the poverty.
Agro- marketing would make all the things automatic 3. EXISTING SYSTEM
which make easier serving as a best solution to all the
problems. There is no computerized system for the farmer to
E-farming will serve as a way for the farmers to sell their sell their product. Currently, the farmer goes to nearest
products across the country just with some basic market handover his product to a particular agent, agent
knowledge about how to use the website. The site will guide ask the farmer to visit the market after a specific time to
the farmers in all the aspects, the current market rate of collect the cash earned out of the sold product. Agent
different products, the total sale and the earned profit for sells the product to another agent or a dealer at the cost
the sold products, access to the new farming techniques of that market. Every Agent tries to cuts his commission
through e- learning and centralized approach to view
out of that. There is no way for farmer to know about
different government’s agriculture schemes including the
compensation schemes for farming. Getting availed to the
the deal and the exact amount at which their product
required information related to the markets and different 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
Keywords:Website,farm-marketing,marketrate,bill,e- markets where they can sell their products for achieving
learning,SMS facility high 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 farmers are not able to benefit out of those. Current
achieve success and increase in their standard of living. system does not provide the way of e-learning for
The Marketing facility would allow the farmers to have farmer that will provide the knowledge of new
a view of the bills created and the related information in techniques in farming. So he doesn’t get the maximum
their accounts. An Authorized-agent would serve as a profit through 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
wise report to the farmer in interactive way. In rural for scheme.
area, 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
Government will put forward the new schemes for explain how the system is going to work, i.e. the process
the farmers. Compensation will be provided for the logic behind it, the flowchart, which represents the
farmers in case of any loss to the production due to pictorial representation of the process logic and finally
some natural calamities. Unique interface will be the Data Flow Diagram of the E-Farming.
provided for 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
 number, names of product he farms, his personal details,
4.2 Applications
etc. This information can be used for various purposes
 Provides user friendly site for the marketing
of marketing.
purpose.
Once availed with the username and a
password for the website the users can perform different  Has real time application in ‘krushi utpann bajar
samitte’ where actual marketing takes place.
operations like marketing, viewing the account
information, 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 and uneasiness in viewing the market.
will give an overview of the operations performed and  Information on mobile by just sending specified
where it goes after the operation has been performed. It keyword through SMS.
shows the different conditions like (“if else”) if one  Easy and hassle free access as well as apply to
condition is not true then where the flow will return and the schemes and compensation provided by
from where will it start again or where will the flow government.
terminate after 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 Enter signup details
Enter signup details Click on submit
areas.
Click on submit  Reliability of information on the web.
E-Farming
Farmer Agent
 Technophobia of new users.

Login with unique

4. Login with unique Perform marketing action 5. METHODOLOGY
5. Request Result and acknowledgement
6. Result and acknowledgement
Following are the basic modules involve in project:
 Account Generation: It includes the creation of
3. Check and assign unique
Grant or deny user application account, in which basic information of user,
type of user, whether he is farmer, agent or
Govt. Authority
Gov. 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,
Figure 2: Flow Chart
today’s turnover, product-wise details like
quantity, 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.
  SMS: Serves as an Alternate to get the market
 Validate farmer’s eligibility for compensation
information to the farmers through mobile.
and schemes.
User can get message related to specific
commodity by sending the keyword to the  Provide the valid reason why the application
service number. for schemes if has not been granted.
 Compensation: It lists the packages provided  Invoke proper activity in response to valid
by government to the victim farmers of various complaints about agents.
natural calamities like heavy rain, drought etc. Scenario 4: Administrator
They can apply for the same and can check the  Create and monitor accounts of users.
status of their application. Farmer can apply  Maintain the website.
only after log in.  Provide the username and authorities as per user.
 Government Schemes: It lists all government  Update the website.
schemes related to particular product and area
and can apply in the same way as for 6.2 Software implementation
compensation. Proposed application is web application build using
 E-Learning: Includes Documentation, Videos jsp, servlet and db2 database. Software implementation
and Audios working as a helpdesk. It will is as shown in below diagram.
educate farmers about new trends and
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  Software Interface:
can view his fund.  Client on Internet: Web Browser,
 If user select as farmer then there is option to Operating System (any)
select whether he wants to take lesson or if he  Client on Intranet: Web Browser, Operating
is already familiar with online buying and System (any)
selling then he can directly go to sell his  Web Server: WASCE, Operating System
products. (any)
 The Farmer can check their account on fund  Data Base Server: DB2, Operating System
transfer. (any)
 Communication Interface:
Scenario 2: Authorized Agent  Client (customer) on Internet will be using
 Agent sells the product to other agent or HTTP/HTTPS protocol.
wholesaler.  Client (system user) on Internet will be
 Agent transfers the fund to farmer’s account as using HTTP/HTTPS protocol
per the product sale.
6.3 Hardware implementation
Scenario 3: Government Officer Weighting machine will be attached to the agent
 Central authorities can log-in to their accounts machine that will automatically upload the weight of the
as created by administrator. product in farmer’s invoice. Weighing instrument is
 Authorities can access all the details of the attached to the microcontroller which will monitor the
market in all the different tehsil, district. activities of machine and provide the relevant data to the
agent’s computer.
 They can view turnover of the market daily,
weekly or monthly.
 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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