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FARMER FRIENDLY APP

Prakash Pattan1, Aditi A Maski2, Aishwarya Patil3

1,2,3Department Of Computer Science & Engineering, P.D.A College of Engineering, Kalaburagi,

Karnataka

ABSTRACT- In India most of the population is depending well as to kill the insect’s harming crops. These are
on agriculture and it is the backbone of the Indian used to increase the production rate of crops.
economy. Agriculture is generally said to be an uncertain Android Studio is the official Integrated Development
profession in terms of profit due to various reasons. The Environment (IDE) for Android app development,
most prominent reason apart from natural calamity is lack based on IntelliJ IDEA. On top of IntelliJ's powerful
of information in practicing agriculture in a scientific way. code editor and developer tools, Android Studio offers
If all the important information is available to farmer in
even more features that enhance your productivity
local language through a mobile phone, then smart-
when building Android apps. This uses kotlin which is
agriculture practices can be adopted by farmer and the
profession of agriculture will be a profitable profession. a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed
So, keeping this concept as a domain, an android app which “pragmatic” programming language initially designed
involves each and every information about plenty of crops, for the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and Android that
their marketing value, soil information, fertilizers and combines object-oriented and functional programming
pesticides to be used according to crops disease, features. It is focused on interoperability, safety, clarity,
temperature, weather and machine information etc., is and tooling support.
proposed to assist the peopleor farmers to produce better Every developing economy has agriculture sector as
crops. This application is provided with language
irreplaceable pillar and so does India. In India the
interface. Android app is designed with ANDROID
agriculture sector contributes close to 20% of GDP.
STUDIO, Firebase with the support of open source
statically typed programming language called KOTLIN. Either directly or indirectly, 60% of total population of
In this particular paper there are various types of modules India depends on agriculture. The majority of Indian
are designed to manage information regarding Agri farmers, which includes small-scale producers, are often
machines and machine tools, different crops, pesticides, unable to access the information and technological
diseases etc., in a user-friendly manner. resources that could increase the yield and lead to better
prices for their crops and products. The wide spread
KEYWORDS: Agriculture, Android, Crops, Soil, Module, network of mobile phones could be the game changer in
Kotlin.
this problem. The main purpose for such project is to
I. INTRODUCTION
develop a mobile phone-based solution that helps in farm
Agriculture is a prime profession as country’s 80% of management, leads to agricultural yield improvement
population is involved in agriculture and agriculture and helps in maintenance of agriculture.
related profession activities. The purpose to develop
this application is to provide information related to II. LITERATURE SURVEY
agriculture. This application provides seeds, soil, In our India most of the population depends on
fertilizer & crops information. Soil information is agriculture in terms of profession hence in order to
important to know which seed better suits to grow on provide proper guidance about efficient use of farm
which type of soil to get more profit in agriculture. On lands, cultivating crops, use of machines we need
considering the seasonal crops because they grow best guidance to refer, for that so many apps and
according to season which leads to yield better crop websites are developed. Below are some projects
production. Fertilizers and pesticides will play an related to agriculture apps.
important role in the farming to add nutrients to soil as

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Kisan Suvidha – This app was launched by Prime management, land field data, easy job recording
Minister Narendra Modi in 2016, this app mainly built process, employees and equipment.
due to work towards development of villages and
empowerment of farmers. This app design is attractive AgroMobile – Developed especially for the Indian
and offers a user-friendly interface. This app involves farmers to assist them in agricultural needs. It is used
information of weather, marketing price of the crops for botanical species recognition and disease
and selection of language and some more features. detection using a simple mobile phone with camera.

Pusa Krishi – This app was launched by Union Krishi Ville – It takes care of the updates of the
Agriculture Minister in 2016. This app mainly different agricultural commodities, weather forecast
includes aim, that farmers will have to understand updates, agricultural news updates.
about new technologies developed by IARI (Indian
Agriculture Research Institute). It will provide Vimal B.Patel, Rahul G.Thakkar, Dr. Sangeeta Ahuja
information about new crops cultivated and more. “Agricultural Android Application”, it is a forecasting
and technical information regarding farming can be
D. Magheshkumar, M. Pavithra “Forming Assistant provided by the experts of farming community to the
Web Service”, which is a web - based project which farmers by using new development in Information and
help farmers to communicate directly with a supplier. Communication Technology (ICT). It is mainly IT
This is best known for business communication etc., based application installed in the Kiosk.

Minwoo Ryu, Jaeseok Yun, Ting Miao, Il-Yup Ahn, III. PROBLEM STATEMENT
Sung-Chan Choi, Jaeho Kim “Design and
Implementation of a Connected Farm for Smart Lack of information to farmers about seeds, cultivation,
Farming System”. This is a web note given by Korean facilities from government and market prices are making
students that they used Internet of things (IoT), and agriculture a less making profession. A smart-agriculture
some new technologies in order to give new structure approach is to be developed for helping farmers. There
of increasing opportunities in the agricultural fields are several problems when we choose farm field as
which describes how to use smart farming system. profession because of:
• Seeds
Forming Assistant is a Web based project that will • Manures, Fertilizers and pesticides
help the farmer for great profit by using mobile and • Irrigation
Computer or system. Communication through • Lack of mechanization
consider for enhancing farmers to access better • Agricultural marketing price
information about agriculture and market situation.
The information shows that mobile phone saves IV. OBJECTIVES
energy and time of farmer.
• Increase the efficiency, with respect to help farmers
Agricom is an android application that provides to maximize the yields for every kilo fertilizer
information to the farmer about the different crop and applied through knowledge sharing, balanced and
other agriculture products. crop-specific nutrition and technology.
• By optimal use of fertilizers, reduce emissions from
KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA is an organization fertilizer manufacturing.
where we can collect the information about the • Optimize productivity on existing farm land by
agriculture related issues. reducing pressure for deforestation
• Adapt scientific method to address the problem of
Farm Manager -The management of small farms, water scarcity through product and technology
designed and developed to respond to the needs and development.
Characteristics of farmers of Greek. It can store
database, do farm customization, easy field

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• The main objective is to illustrate the different types using admin ID & password. Admin provided the
of agricultural activities and the benefits for the authority to adding, edit or update & delete the data.
farmers. Application provides the interface communication to user
• Formulate climate smart agriculture investment and admin. One more think Admin can sell the own
proposals and identify possible financing resources. products by using the application. That purpose
• To enhance the economic development of all stake- providing marketing interface for admin and user.
holders and to generate employment in order to
combat vagaries of unemployment problem.
• To improve nutritional standards for improvement of
health.
• To discourage rural to urban migration and thereby
minimize congestion & other associated problems in
the society.
• To contribute towards protection and upgradation of
the environment for ensuing ecological balance,
avoidance of global warming and healthy living for
man and animal.
• To create marketing facilities to reduce post-harvest
loss and distress sale of agriculture produce.
FIGURE 2: ADMIN WORKING MODULE
V. ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
The architecture mainly divided into three main parts,
• System diagram
• Admin module
• User module

SYSTEM DIAGRAM
System diagram shows overall design of the proposed
Application.

FIGURE 3: USER WORKING MODULE

USER MODULE
The corner stone notation for data modeling is the entity-
relationship diagram. Three components are used in
relational database design. Those are Entities, Attributes
and Relationships. The user modules having one of the
android application interfaces provide to the user. This
FIGURE 1: SYSTEM DIAGRAM application many options for helping the user just like
login, registration, Farming information, seed
ADMIN MODULE information, Soil information, Weather and last one is
The user can open the application by using the ID & help.
password and give information about farming according VI. FUNCTIONS OF PROPOSED SYSTEM
the seasons. The admin also opens the Dashboard by

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