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PROJECT OVERVIEW
oldest and prime activities of a farmer. Agricultural farmers are more important for many
reasons. They are the critical components in rebuilding local food economies (Brown,
dispensed primarily to provide food, fibers, fuel, and alternative commodities through the
controlled use of chiefly terrestrial plants and animals. So from an overall perspective,
agriculture outlines associates in every crop management and also animal management
(Hayati, 2017).
Through the technologies, agriculture and farming were used the same; it was
noted that they have different concepts. The study follows that agriculture measured
Farmers lately hold a ball of demand by serving others. But the latter the problem
it brings, it also gives instant challenges to them. Farmers are willing to take the risk for
them to keep themselves in track in this world that keeps on evolving and producing
high-quality crops that can be traded internationally (Shekara, Chandra, et al., 2016).
Modern farming does not need a great amount of effort compared with traditional
farming. But in this modern era, there are still farmers who are practicing their traditional
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way that also needs hard labor compared to those farmers who use modern technologies
and machines that can take care of everything (Karkhile & Ghuge, 2015).
upgrades in its Root Cause Analysis (RCA). In 2012, the Philippines posted gains in:
"fish, crisp organic products, vegetable concentrates, vegetable oils (coconut oil), fish
arrangements, sugar and candy parlors, grain arrangements, natural product preparations,
and tobacco products. The nation ranked number three in bananas and number two in
pineapples. Nonetheless, what RCAs did exclude is the measure of fares, which is one of
The Philippines has a total land area of 30 million hectares; 47% of which is agricultural,
land, and the country labor force totaled about 41.34 million people in that agricultural
sector employed 11.29 million people, which is equivalent to 29% of the national
Management Monitoring System, will help the City Agriculture, Urdaneta City to
manage their data gathering electronically and also a mobile-based application that could
The study wants to help the City Agriculture of Urdaneta City to upgrade its
manual process of managing data to Electronic form. Also, this research study aims the
farmer’s community of Urdaneta City to monitor the plantation of crops to prevent the
These propose study also aims to help the farmers to market the crops and goods
directly to the trader to limit their time and efforts from finding traders and also to
The main objective of the study is to design and develop an Electronic Farmers
aimed to:
1. Determine the existing process of City Agriculture in Urdaneta City along with
d. Reporting.
d. Reporting.
To City Agriculture, Urdaneta City. The study will help the City of Agriculture
for accurate monitoring and managing the farmers’ needs and distribution of crops.
To the Staff of City Agriculture. This study can help them in a way that they are
comfortable using their smartphone that they can carry around with them. It can be an
easy way for them to report each data they gathered from their programs or any event
To the Urdaneta City Farmers. The result of this study will teach them the
importance of cultivating different crops in every season instead of cultivating only one
per season, to prevent them from losing so much of their investment. Also, it can help
them to have more knowledge of cultivating different crops. Furthermore, this study will
To the Agricultural Technologist. This study will also help the Agricultural
technologist assigned per association to communicate with the farmers and also to the
admin of the City Agriculture. Agricultural technologist is the term you call the head of
To the Traders. This study can help every trader in the city to communicate with
the farmers easily. It can also save their time in finding suitable farmers who can offer
what they exactly need, especially those traders that are picky. It is like a win-win
To the Researchers. This study will help the researchers to gain knowledge on
how hard farming is here in the Philippines. It also enlightens the researchers what is
happening in the field of farming, and on how the farmers are hardworking for them to
sustain their needs and also the society’s needs. They will know that managing and
monitoring farmers are a hard job for the City Agriculture staff.
To the Future Researchers. This study will teach them to understand what this
research is all about. Not knowing that managing and monitoring is a helpful topic if they
are really into it. This can also be their basis on how this research will flow. They can
gain information about things that are related to managing, monitoring, crop plantation,
farmers management and monitoring system for the admin of City Agriculture, for the
Urdaneta City farmers and Agricultural technologist. The study focuses mainly on
As for the admin of the City Agriculture, the person responsible for verifying
every farmer and traders registration, creating accounts for agricultural technologists, and
assigned each of them the different associations. The City Agriculturist, who is in charge
of the admin and Agricultural Technologist, the Sub-admin, is the people who can access
The web-based feature is for managing basic information of the Urdaneta City
Farmers like Name, Age, Location, Contact Number, and also includes the total area of
It will also help the personnel to manage the distribution of free goods and
agricultural material; the main goal of the application is to make sure that every
transaction will be efficient and convenient. This application also makes access to the
local farmers by the use of messaging feature where they can easily communicate within
the app. This also includes a posting feature that the admin posts the latest event and
announcements.
The two users have the same access to the application, but the admin had the main
role. In creating the association, it will take in charge of the admin and the registration of
the agricultural technologist. Creating an account for farmers is included with the
Agricultural technologist that has been approved by the admin, the admin is the only one
All the processes are in the web part of the system, somehow other information of
the Urdaneta City farmer, is not included by the suggestion of the client to secure the
private information of every farmer. They cannot let information leak. That is why the
researchers provided a system that provides security for the City Agricultural office.
Admin and Agricultural Technologist also monitor the seasonal crop planting of
the Urdaneta City farmers based on the data that came from the mobile part of the
system.
This feature shows the average percentage of the seasonal crop planting of the
farmers that can help to monitor if the planting of crops is at risk of over-cropping.
However, the system is limited in monitoring the total average of the farmers’ harvested
crops.
There is a feature that the farmers need to register their chosen crop they want to
cultivate within the season. This feature has a static crop recommendation that will be
cultivated within that season. Each selection of it, the system will suggest a certain date
of harvesting. Through this feature, it will help the farmers to decide what kind of crops
they plant within the season. This feature monitors seasonal crop plantation with the help
of the graphical pie and lets the farmer avoid any over the plantation of the crop. The
The mobile application also monitors the distribution of seed given by the City
Agriculture. It views the data of released goods and supplies that have been given by the
The researchers also added a message feature of the application that allows the
communicate with one another. The application can make a call, send SMS, or via
electric message.
However, for those individuals who wanted to have the mobile application system
can only access the application as a trader. The mobile application system is not available
to download online upon the request of the client but still available in the City
Agricultural office for them to know those individuals who personally want access to the
The traders can register online and can be validated by the admin of City
Agriculturist. In the mobile base application, the traders can only access limited
functions. The system will not allow the traders to post but can only view crops that are
As for the mobile feature of the system, the farmers will have to log in to the
username and password that the City Agriculture provided but, they can update it
anytime. Once they have logged in, they will be shown with the user interface containing
every corresponding function. This app will notify the farmers about the City
Agriculture’s announcements and open activities for them. This study also shows some
recommendations or options for the farmers to choose what kind of crops are still
available to cultivate. Also, this app can help the farmers communicate with certain
In the study, the researchers used the term management to determine the work of
the Department of Agriculture. They manage the farmers all around Urdaneta City.