dc.description.abstract | Poor management of Agricultural inputs information has become a major concern to Farmers in
Wakiso District today, this has led farmers to purchase counterfeit Agricultural Inputs
unknowingly hence harvesting poor farm yields and losing interest in farming, thus abandoning
their farms, also Agro-Dealers are also facing losses because the farmers are no longer buying
from them.
The farmers told us they purchase their products from markets, local village shops and others travel
to Kampala City to buy the inputs. The problem arises after these farm inputs are applied to their
gardens because most of the farmers complained that they do not achieve the high yields that they
were promised by the Agro- Dealers.
The Agricultural Input Information Management System facilities communication between
farmers and Agro-Dealers to provide quality information about the genuine inputs and description
of the counterfeit inputs to reduce on their purchase and use, the system allows farmers to log into
the system and search for the genuine farm inputs from the system, with the description of how to
use it and the location or contact of this genuine Agro-Dealer who also registered the genuine farm
inputs on our system.
The information used for this system was collected using Questionnaires and Interview guides in
order to get the different perspectives from the Farmers and Agro-Dealers and any suggestions on
what is required and how to improve the system. The research data was analyzed using
comparative methods and content analysis with excel.
Data flow diagrams and Enhanced Entity Relationship Diagram were used to model the system
design for easy understanding of how it works for both developers and other stakeholders. The
system was developed using technologies like HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript and Bootstrap.
The system has different users with different roles that is; the administrator is in charge of
monitoring and maintaining the system, the Farmer is able to register, login, search the available
farm inputs and view the images, contacts and locations of Agro-Dealers where they can purchase
from and the Agro-Dealer is able to register, login, add inputs, view inputs, view location and
contacts of other Agro-Dealers. This report covers all chapters and activities carried out through
the entire project. | en_US |