Implementation of an Agricultural kiosk in an

Android Application
Omkar Aditya Aparna Shukla
Prof. Padmanabhan P. Student, School of Computer Science Student, School of Computer Science
Assistant Professor, School of Computer and Engineering and Engineering
Science and Engineering Galgotias University Galgotias University
Galgotias University Greater Noida, India Greater Noida, India
Greater Noida, India omkaranand10@gmail.com aparnashukla913@gmail.com
padmanabhan.p@galgotiasuniversity.edu
.in

Abstract— Farming community experts can provide farmers
with forecasting and technical knowledge about farming using
the latest developments in Information and Communication
Technology (ICT). The agricultural kiosk is one of the ways in
which local farmers get information about agriculture through
an IT-based kiosk. A few disadvantages of Kiosks are; a) It is not
easy to use. b) The cost of installing a kiosk is very expensive. c) A
problem with a stable internet connection. d) Security costs of
kiosk protection. In this article, we plan to build an android
application that will build an android application and provide the
solution and information as well to remove the stated problems
for farmers. The android system is open source; we can create
and use software that has the same function as an agricultural
store. After creating the android application, we can release it as
a open source application in the market, so that everyone can use
it freely. This article shows how to build such a method which
will be more concentrated towards mobile farming technology.
strategy is a design to solve that malware by designing the
System Application on Android.
A. Android
[3] Android are combination of software for mobile
devices which include an operating system (OS), applications
and all middleware required. Android SDK will provides the
way and required APIs needed to build multiple applications
on their platform using Java language.
[5] [6] In this article, we will design and develop Kiosk
features and integrate with the Android operating system
(OS) after that that will lead to such a system that will
eliminate the limitations of kiosks.
• Not easy to use.

Keywords— Kiosk, Crops, Mobile Application, Farming,
Smartphones.
I. INTRODUCTION
[1] More than 65% of the population in India live in
rural areas, among whom, farmers are the majority of the
population who are agriculture dependent completely.
Modern ttechnologies contributes towards an significant
role in bringing about renewable agricultural development
and also provides insightful information. The Agriculture
Kiosk is one of the routes where the farmer acquires various
agricultural knowledge from the internet as well as experts.
Agricultural kiosk is a computer software integrated with
specific database, experts, systems and software created to
give access of farming and agricultural knowledge to the
farmers.
[2] Kiosks are one of the many signs of efforts to use
information and communication technology in social and
economic development. The Agriculture Kiosk provides
data and various information about crops, needs, forecasts,
etc. to the farmers and in turn improve their economic status
as well. Despite providing important information, Kiosk has
a problem of various evils highlighted in this paper and the
• The cost of setting up a kiosk is very high.
• Problem with a stable internet connection.
• Security costs for kiosk protection
This concept of mobile farming technology helps
farmers to access important agricultural information by
simply using a portable device.
[6] Once this application is installed in farmers mobile,
they can access all the information anywhere and anytime.
Farmers can directly communicate with the available
experts if they face any queries and can get actual-time
information. The android application will remove the setup
security and protection cost of the kiosk and hence, It will
cost very little compared to the kiosks. The application can
be downloaded by the farmers from the android/IOS
market for free (or they have to pay some minimal cost, if
it is applicable on the services or additional information).
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
[12] The agricultural sector always play an important
position in their development, mainly in the low income
nations, industry is expanse in those place, in terms of labor
and income. The Development Report by World Bank in
2008, Agriculture for Development, also show the reason why
declining agricultural support from international donors has a
negative effect on economic growth, development, and the
fight against poorness in low-income countries. This report is
an important document that highlights various aspects of the
story, and contributes to revitalizing the policy. But due to
food, finance and climate change over the past three years,
much has changed since the report was published, in the fall of
2007. They expressed serious concern about the impact,
deterioration of food availability, vulnerability, and severe
anxiety. poverty. It seems that now is a good time to be in the
agricultural economics literature, focusing mainly on issues
that are important for agricultural production and poverty
alleviation.
[11] We will directly provide agricultural resources to
support agricultural production such as fertilizer and irrigation,
and in many developing countries, such as India. In order to
benefit this policy, large and smallholder farmers have stated
that agricultural support policy, such as the recommendation
or support for agricultural research and development, is a
requirement for agricultural development, and that agriculture.
, market freedom did not benefit emerging farmers, market
failures, and disruptions.
[3] The growth of Android apps is amazing. People go to
technology to find solutions to their daily problems. Here we
have come up with an idea that can easily alleviate a person's
problems by going to Kiosk for services.
[4] Smart phones have taken into account a crucial
innovation that has changed the human life in several aspects.
Android has emerged because the most generally used OS in
the smartphone category. On Android OS many applications
are available to download for free, making life easier.
III. OBJECTIVES
A. Primary Objective
The main purpose of planning and implementing a strategy
focused on removing various problems of an Agricultural
Kiosk as well as improving the scope of mobile farming.
B. Secondary Objective
 Building a model that will provide agricultural
information to all areas and at any time for a mobile
system. Therefore, it will save time to go to the kiosk
to download information.
 Some Agriculture Kiosk charge farmers the number of
times they ask for help. But this android-based system
model offers the same service to farmers at no cost.
 Eliminate the cost of setting up an Agriculture Kiosk
in each area using this model.
 As the program is running on android phone. Every
farmer can get information at once, which is why he
removes the waste of time by standing in line on
Kiosk to get information. (Where only one access at a
time can be done by farmers)
 This system is relatively easy to use compared to the
kiosk system. It provides some information on the
invoice form and the local language, so even an
uneducated farmer could easily understand it.
 Farmers make real-time communication with
Agricultural Specialists; therefore, the farmer finds a
specific solution to the problems only at a certain
time, that is not possible with the existing kiosk.
IV. PROBEM STATEMENT
[8] After extensive literature research, various problems of
the existing Agricultural kiosk have been identified.
 The kiosk is portable, so in order to get information,
farmers have to move from their place to their current
location. One person can reach the store at a time, so all
the other people have to wait in line until their turn.
Therefore, the most important time for farmers is to spend
time traveling and waiting for their turn to reach the
supermarket.
 The most expensive kiosk. It required different costs to set
up one store somewhere. For example: - setup costs,
security costs, security, electricity, maintenance and other
costs.
 Although the store offers local language support, it is still
not easy for an illiterate person to work with kiosks.
 Many people in the village still believe in segregation. So
because of this segregation the lower classes have no
access to the supermarket. Therefore, they do not know
the agricultural knowledge provided by the kiosk.
 A few Kiosk charges farmers for using their services all
the time. Therefore, it is not possible for poor farmers to
pay for those services.
 In many villages the electricity supply is unstable. The
kiosk needed continuous electricity; therefore it cannot be
guaranteed that the kiosk service is available to the farmer
24 * 7.
 Real-time direct contact of farmers to Agricultural
Specialists is not possible with the use of the Agricultural
Kiosk. The kiosk stores old files and logs created via
email only.
 Therefore, a quick solution to a farmer's problem at the
same time is not possible using existing Kiosk services.
 V. METHODOLOGY
To solve the problems given above, we are developing a
Desirable System that will work for Kiosks with the help of
Android Smart Phones. By using this defined app, by simple
working, all the information will be provided to the users of
android phone which will better than getting it manually from
the kiosks. Every farmer has their own personal phone, so he
does not have to go to the shops and do not have to wait in
long lines to get the opportunity to use the kiosk. Therefore, it
The program begins with a selection of 4 categories. If the
farmer wants to know the weather forecast information, he has
to press 1. If a farmer wants to know about plants, he has to
press 2. If the farmer presses 3 he will get details of various
plant diseases information and finally, if the farmer wants to
talk to Agricultural experts to find a quick solution to the
problem, he should press 4.

Fig 3. Selecting Crop Category

will reduce the use of the farmer's time. The farmer will press 2 for crop information. In the
submenu, he can press 1,2,3 with monsoon, summer and winter
plants respectively.
Fig 1. Design Architecture of Kiosk Application

As the information provided in the local language in voice,

so every uneducated farmer easily understands the information
provided by the system. The high security costs of setting up
products are removed, the farmer just has to pay the cost of the
android phone. As this app is available for free on the Android
Market, the farmer is exempt from the purchase costs charged
by other Agricultural Kiosks. Finally, if the farmer has some
problems that the system cannot solve it means that there is a
place to speak directly to the specialist which can’t be
implemented using the current Kiosks.
A. Architecture of the Proposed Android Kiosk Fig 4. Selecting Monsoon Crop Soil and Water Information Subcategory

If the grower needs monsoon crop information, he

will press 1. And in the submenu, you will choose according
to your need.
VI. RESULT ANALYSIS

After many trials, it can be said that our operating

Fig 2. Categories in the Main Menu
The figure above shows the design of the proposed system.
We will provide information on India's weather forecasting
system, plants, plant diseases and real-time communication
with experts.
system is a better choice for farmers compared to the existing
application provided by the government and third-party
engineers, as it is a real-time and easy-to-use application for
everyone. It is faster and more efficient due to the latest
technology introduced and the minimum installation
requirements.
 VII. CONCLUSION
In this paper, we conclude that the proposed program
provides an easy-to-use environment for an uneducated Indian
farmer as the Program provides local language and voice
information. You got all that Prediction, Crops, Plant Disease
Information just for the Android phone keyboard. Farmers can
find the required information anywhere, eliminating travel and
waiting time at the kiosk. Setup is much cheaper compared to
kiosk, as no complicated setup is required and we can set it on
any android phone, which is already available everywhere.
VIII.ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We will like to express our gratitude to the University of
Galgotias for giving us this research opportunity on our small
project based on our android agricultural application so that we
can use it as an agricultural center successfully. Special thanks
to our guide for guiding us in the work and friends for helping
in our work.
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