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ANDROID APP TO CONNECT FARMERS TO RETAILERS AND FOOD
PROCESSING INDUSTRY
Saniya Patil*1, Sanyukta Daingade*2, Supriya Kamble*3, Sejal Shelake*4,
Sanika Thomake*5, Priyanka Koravi*6
*1,2,3,4,5,6Department Of Computer Engineering, Sharad Institute Of Technology Polytechnic,
Yadrav (Ichalkaranji) Maharashtra, 416121, India.
DOI : https://www.doi.org/10.56726/IRJMETS45341
ABSTRACT
Farmer Trader Application is an android application developed for farmers/seller’s and retailers. This
application gives support to the village farmers who want to use this facility and who want to learn how it is
possible and how they can use e-farming to sell their products. Internet will help the farming to sell their
products directly to consumers and food processing industries. This paper provides market information to a
farmer using its easy interface on the mobile application. The mobile application is intended to be used for fast
and updated information delivering system for farmer. The intention behind this paper is to help farmer so they
buy or sell their agriculture goods and products. To make browsing easy many filters can provide. Farmers face
many problems while selling their goods and products, this system promises to provide an easy and
recreational way to sell the products. Location is a one of parameter for consumer and producer while selling
or buying their products it will helps the user to get the product nearby their location. The basic objective of the
system is to consider every one need and full fills their requirement with fair and transparent agriculture
business.
Keywords: Mobile Application, Food Processing Industry, Card.
I. INTRODUCTION
Farmers work vigorously all through the session have to develop their harvests, they confront a lot of issues
over the season like characteristic disasters, unpredictable rain, and Unavailability of water resources.
Farmers need more facility to tackle the issues. If they could manage all the issues
The framer also manages other than farming like to handling the transportation, stockpiling or storage which is
incorporated into the agribusiness market.
Develop Business Processes: To be able to use internet technologies to enhance the d-demand process and the
provision of agricultural equipment. Online Reservation of Agricultural Equipment: A method by which a user
may reserve available agricultural equipment online prior to the planned date or time of use.
Availability: Without even leaving the house, the tractor can be booked immediately. Transparency: Customers
will receive information on agricultural equipment and will receive previous rental information that they have
to pay according to the hour of service. User Friendly: In this app, we used two languages.
One of them is English, and the other is Marathi. For farmers, it will make it easy to use this program.
Flexibility: Depending on their requirements, the farmer can choose long -term or short-term hire and can
choose any form of agricultural equipment they need.
As we know farming is a prime occupation in India, but as a trend all things are getting in mobiles and most of
the peoples are getting there required information in phones, learning and updating them self. But in case of
farmers this is not happening up to 100% compared to other fields, keeping this gap we are proposing new
application.
If the farmers have knowledge of computer then they can directly register into the application and sell their
product or else, they can contact professional who will help the farmers to teach them basics of computers.
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
Following articles are studied during the literature survey phase of this work.
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2.1 Contract Farming-Partnership for growth
The Basic Objective Of The System Is To Considers Every One Need And Full Fills Their Requirement With Fair
And Transparent Agriculture Business.
The prime advantage of a contractual agreement for farmers is that the sponsor will normally undertake to
purchase all produce grown, within specified quality and quantity parameters. Contracts can also provide
farmers with access to a wide range of managerial, technical and extension services that otherwise may be
unobtainable. Farmers can use the contract agreement as collateral to arrange credit with a commercial bank in
order to fund inputs. Thus, the main potential advantages for farmers are: • provision of inputs and production
services
• Access To Credit
• Introduction Of Appropriate Technology
• Skill Transfer
• Guaranteed And Fixed Pricing Structures And Access To Reliable Markets.
2.2 Android App to Connect Farmers to Retailers and Agricultural Machinery Rental Business First, we
have done problem analysis and we recognize the farmers' problem of renting agricultural equipment for
different agricultural purposes and using our engineering skills, we have discussed and planned the solution to
the problem by creating an android application. Different problems were faced while working on the solution,
for which we conduct research on problems of our project, such as collecting information on different
agricultural equipment used by farmers so that we can effectively meet the farmer's requirements. We have
used the Marathi language to make the software easy for farmers to use. By upholding the ethics of application
use, this application can be used by farmers. This software is created by cooperation and it is environmentally
sustainable because it does not exist in physical form. To plan and build this project, we followed software
engineering principles. We used the algorithm for concepts and languages for programming such as java. We
followed the life cycle of software development to create our project. We also mastered the important aspects of
working as a team after undertaking all of these tasks and completing all the procedures.
2.3 Farming Stock Trading Android Application
The idea is to develop an online bidding application that would help the farmers and the customers contact each
other directly and do the business. This would include a cloud platform that would store the data of the
registered users (farmers and customers).The cloud platform will be a live cloud (Platform as a Service). The
application will include membership module for loyal farmers (registered farmers) to participate in it. e. The
online forum will help the customers interact with each other. Farmers get to know the actual demand in the
market through the requests that customers post on the application.
2.4 Android App to Connect Farmers to Retailers and Food Processing Industry
Deals are done manually with basically no common platform and less connectivity between the farmers and the
food processing industry the current systems deprives farmers of being the principal decision maker The Food
processing industry employs people (middlemen) who search for the raw material needed. This Process needs a
lot of manpower and time; this can lead to human-induced errors. Digital Involvement is very less in the
traditional system. The Design is based on a client-server architecture where the client is an Android device and
server as Firebase (server-less technology) can use to develop this application. Firebase is an integration of
various web APIs and programming language APIs. The developers to focus on crafting fantastic user
experiences
III. PROBLEM STATEMENT OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE
3.1 Problem Statement
Agricultural products are also unavailable and have minimal data on the actual market price of the goods as
well. Local markets are almost often inefficient when selling goods on national markets.
A. Problems Existing in the Current System
1. No updated market details on the daily prices of goods for farmers.
2. Increased participation of third-party suppliers in determining the commodity price.
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3. No proper control of agricultural products by the government.
4. No proper marketing equipment for the farmers
3.2 Specific Objective
1. Providing agro-products with a real-time online marketplace and removing middleman/brokerage.
2. Providing both growers and bulk buyers with cost efficient transporters. 3. Save money and time by renting
farm machinery.
3.3 Scope
This project's future reach will include the implementation of this application on a broader scale, making it
compliant with other software and other platforms. This project is initially deployed in a sub-area of a town.
Then, depending on the demographics and agricultural requirements of that region, it can be deployed in
various other areas for future scope. Depending on the specifications and the work area of the project, various
other features may also be provided to users. In addition to farmers, the tractor owner may also register and
make adjustments to his profile. It will have more regional languages in the future
IV. METHODOLOGY
System Architecture
The system architecture of the proposed work is depicted in Figure 1.
Fig. 1. System architecture of proposed methodology
In Fig.1 show the internal modules of an application. This application basically considering to provide the user-
friendly interface so the user can access and browse the information with easy steps. The application provides
the basic authentication for the user i.e. farmer and Food Processing Industry. The user can register as a
producer or consumer with the minimum details. It provides two different areas for producer and consumer for
better accessing internal data.
A. Product Details
Upload If the user is the seller, he/she can upload their product details with real images in this system and also
updated information related to their product i.e. product name, cost, specification, quantity, and price.
It has also automatically identified the location of the buyer and seller while they are uploading the details.
B. Shopping Cart and Notification
The notification is generated when someone will product. The notification can send to the farmer. Once an order
will have placed it will send the notification to the farmer with details of the product i.e. product name, quantity
and contact details. The user can add more than one product in the shopping cart, the shopping cart will display
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all selected product and their prices, and once you place the order it’s automatically calculated the total amount
of the product.
C. Product Search
The searching the technique is playing important role in the app the user can search their product through
search option with different parameters. The seller and buyer can easily search the required product with
different options like product name price and quantity etc. the app will give the product details with the nearest
location of the seller and buyers, it has also list similar product with their cost on a single window where buyer
can compare different prices so it helps the buyer to choose the product with multiple options.
D. Real-Time Database
The real-time database is used to store all data of the app. The responses time of this service is very short and it
also provides listeners to update app data when changes are encountered in the database. The Cloud stores and
share user-generated content like images, audio, and video with powerful, simple, and cost effective object
storage built for Google scale. The Firebase SDKs for Cloud Storage add Google security to file uploads and
downloads for Firebase apps, regardless of network quality.
E. Cloud Functions and Cloud Storage
The cloud function is also known as server-side code. Cloud functions support various triggers and HTTP
requests. This application used Cloud Functions to sanitize data, admin function, creating a user, manipulating
the real-time database and for notifications.
F. Authentication
It manages the users and their sessions over the app. This service dispense authentication such as Google login,
Facebook login, Anonymous login, Email-password login, Mobile number logins. The app used login with a
mobile number. An OTP is sent to the user’s device which is used to authenticate the users.
G. Analytics
The Android SDK automatically captures certain key events, user properties, and its activities then it will display
captured data in the form of graphs. The Android APIs can provide the all the summarized data to the user so a
user can easily understand through graphs and figures, for this purpose firebase application can use. Firebase is
Google application it will provide us with important features like data analysis, database, and data recovery.
Firebase is a Google product freely available it scales automatically even bigger app. Firebase is a cloud-based
application, it works individually but share data within the app so they working together inside the app. So
firebase is the best solution for data analytics
H. Client-side
The Android mobile app is developed in java with inbuilt APIs. The necessary APIs to communicate with
Firebase. The app uses listeners which are location-based (i.e. location in Real-time database) to keep client
data updated. Messaging service is a gateway for any notification to be delivered to the client. App also supports
multi-language; all strings are translated in various languages when the language of an app is changed the
strings are replaced with the string of that language
V. CONCLUSION
This system will help farmers and food processing industry and user to get the better return. It protects the
interest of both consumers and producers. This application is a single window where all the agriculture
industry, farmers and user will come together and get their product with comparative prices. The present
agricultural marking is unorganized, so this app can streamline the agriculture business with fare marketing;
Farmers are facing many problems to sell their products this app will help the farmers to sell their product in an
easy way and will get good prices of their product. The app would distribute the trader’s margin between
farmers and retailers/FPIs. Households would pay lower prices. The communication gap between farmers and
retailers/FPI will be reduced by the app as it will provide a platform for farmers to sell their goods at an
affordable price and negligible loss. The marketplace is the main communication link between farmers and the
retailers/FPI. They acquire various taxes and transportation money from both the sides hence marketplace
charges much higher rates. This system will help the farmers to compare the price with the market and sell
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farmer to him; this will save his time and money too.
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