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Project Proposal
On

Mobile Application for Farmer to Get Direct Access

Presented By

under guidance of
Prof. AAA
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education, Mumbai
Department of Compute Science
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Table of Contents:

S Index Page
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1. Rationale 2

2. Introduction 3

3. Problem Definition 5

4. Literature Survey 6

5. Proposed Methodology for solving 7

identified problem
6. Modules 8

7. Software Requirement Specification 10

8. Action Plan 11

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 Rationale:
The agriculture industry in many countries faces numerous challenges, including low
farm productivity, limited market access, and poor price realization. In India, for instance, small and
marginal farmers, who form a significant proportion of the agricultural community, often struggle to get
adequate returns on their investments due to the presence of intermediaries in the supply chain. The
existing agricultural marketing system in the country is fragmented and unorganized, with middlemen
often taking advantage of the situation by offering low prices to farmers and charging high commissions
from buyers. In this context, there is a need for a platform that directly connects farmers with buyers and
helps them realize better prices for their produce. The project aims to bridge the gap between farmers
and consumers by providing a user-friendly e-commerce portal where farmers can directly sell their
produce to buyers. The platform allows farmers to create profiles and list their products, including
detailed descriptions, quantities, prices, and images. Buyers can easily browse through the available
products, make purchases, and securely complete transactions using integrated payment gateways. The
project also includes a dedicated Transporter Forum, providing a space for registered users to engage in
transport person to transport their crop yields.

Keywords: Codename one, Google map Handling, Sql Lite database, Linear search, Farmer
market

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Introduction:
Agricultural marketing is a method that includes gathering, storage, preparation, shipping, and
delivery of different farming materials across the country. In agriculture marketing, the selling of an
agriculture product depends on various components like the demand for the product at that time,
availability of storage, etc.
Before Independence, farmers while selling their products to traders experienced massive
incorrect weighing and manipulation of accounts. The farmers did not have required information about
the prices and were forced to sell at low prices with no proper storage facility. Sometimes, the product
could be sold at a weekly village market in the farmer’s village or in a neighbouring village. If these
shops are not available, then the product is sold at irregular markets in a nearby village or town, or in the
mandi. So, the government took various measures to control the activities of the traders.
Agriculture is the main occupation in India as it has major contribution in Indian economy as
well as it is a primary source of livelihood of common masses. Farming contributes around18% of the
India’s GDP and half of the population depends on it. Farmers are the backbone of the Indian economy;
still they suffer from poverty, poor agricultural marketing, and many other problems. Our aim is to
introduce the concept of digital marketing in the field of agriculture. We are trying to eliminate the role
of middlemen from agricultural marketing in order to insure fair price to farmers.

Problem Definition:

To enhance the process of providing direct access to the market for the farmer for their grown crops
along with the access of agricultural equipment and transport systems, an interactive cross-platform
mobile application is designed using Codename One.

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Literature Survey:
1] Shilpa Aggarwal et al. describe quantify market access in rural Tanzania, and the extent to
which it constrains agricultural productivity. author collect granular data on farmer input and sales
decisions, input and output prices, and travel costs in all 1,183 villages in two regions of Tanzania.
author find that a village in the 90th percentile of the travel-cost adjusted price distribution faces input
and output prices 40-55% less favorable than a village at the 10th percentile. In reduced form, an
additional standard deviation of travel time is associated with 20-25% lower input adoption and output
sales. author develop and quantify a spatial model of input adoption and conservatively estimate that
farmers behave as if they face travel costs of 6% ad-valorem per kilometer of travel, which is equivalent
to 40% when traveling to the closest retailer. Holding exogenous local factors fixed, author estimate that
reducing travel costs by 50% doubles adoption and reduces the adoption-remoteness gradient by 18%.
2] E. Elbasi et al. introduced due to the increasing global population and the growing demand for
food worldwide as well as changes in weather conditions and the availability of water, artificial
intelligence (AI) such as expert systems, natural language processing, speech recognition, and machine
vision have changed not only the quantity but also the quality of work in the agricultural sector.
Researchers and scientists are now moving toward the utilization of new IoT technologies in smart
farming to help farmers use AI technology in the development of improved seeds, crop protection, and
fertilizers. This will improve farmer’s portability and the overall economy of the country. AI is
emerging in three major categories in agriculture, namely soil and crop monitoring, predictive analytics,
and agricultural robotics. In this regard, farmers are increasingly adopting the use of sensors and soil
sampling to gather data to be used by farm management systems for further investigations and analyses.
This article contributes to the eld by surveying AI applications in the agricultural sector. It starts with
background information on AI, including a discussion of all AI methods utilized in the agricultural
industry, such as machine learning, the IoT, expert systems, image processing, and computer vision. A
comprehensive literature review is then provided, addressing how researchers have utilized AI
applications effectively in data collection using sensors, smart robots, and monitoring systems for crops
and irrigation leakage. It is also shown that while utilizing AI applications, quality, productivity, and
sustainability are maintained. Finally, author explore the beets and challenges of AI applications
together with a comparison and discussion of several AI methodologies applied in smart farming, such
as machine learning, expert systems, and image processing.

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 3] S. D. Panjaitan et al. explain an approach to implementing drones for spraying fertilizer and
pesticides has been discussed in this paper. It becomes essential since the agricultural drone is mainly
used for mod ern farming. Some obstacles in conventional paddy elds involve trees, access to the
location, and community understanding, especially about the liquid concentration that must be sprayed.
This research shows those problems can be solved by providing the performance analysis of the drone
for spraying activities. Regarding the movement, the agricultural drone presented in this paper can bring
a maximum 16-liter load. The agricultural results show that drone applications can help the farmer to
spray the crop. The drone application enhanced the effectiveness of nutrient and pesticide uptake.
Furthermore, the energy consumption and the trajectory accuracy have also been analyzed.
4] Marta MARSON et al. describe an agriculture has potential for development, job creation and
structural change if agricultural value chains are considered in their entirety: from inputs, to farm,
through processing, until marketing. This is particularly important in the case of Africa, where
agriculture contributes in a major way to GDP and employment. However, this focus on value chains
does not seem to have been accompanied by attention to the diversity of actors operating along value
chains. Based on an extensive literature review on access to markets by farmers and on participatory
research with farmers, traders, and sectoral stakeholders of leafy vegetables value chains in Kenya and
Tanzania, this study argues that the role played by traders in local fresh produce markets in Africa is
poorly understood and supported. It is argued that powerful narratives about the benefits of direct access
to market by farmers, which are also present in academic literature, are sometimes overoptimistic, or
interpreted beyond their scope and applied regardless of the specific features of actors and produce. The
study shows that the leafy vegetables trade provides self-employment for many women, and that it has
positive impacts on other groups, notably farmers.
5] S. Godara et al. propose a framework for a text-based query-response generation system to
cope with the demand for timely help to the nationwide Indian farmers. One of the major challenges in
designing such systems is constructing a knowledge base that can answer plant protection-related
questions from a diverse population of farmers. To tackle this problem, the past eight years’ call-log
records from the countrywide farmers’ helpline network are collected and processed to construct the
required knowledge base. Additionally, three response-retrieval models with approximate matching and
spatial-based searching functionality are developed to administer the user input questions and extract
relevant answers from the base. To validate the performance of the proposed framework, a diversified
question bank consisting of 755 queries covering 151 crops in India is compiled. Three metrics

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(Accuracy Percentage, Crop-weighted Performance Score, and Average Response-retrieval time) are
considered for the models’ assessment. Experimental results show that Agri Response is a practical
framework in real-world applications, with the different retrieval models useful for different scenarios.
6] S. O. Araújo et al. focuses on the implementation of the ID3SAS methodology, which
represents a major breakthrough for the agricultural sector. By integrating wireless sensor data, field
actuators, IoT, cloud computing, advanced data analytics, predictive models, and decision support tools,
it offers significant contributions to creating a cutting-edge SAS, providing farmers with real-time
decision-making capabilities that can lead to increased productivity and reduced water consumption.
Embracing the transformative potential of Agriculture 4.0 technologies, the ID3SAS methodology paves
the way for more sustainable and efficient agricultural practices. ID3SAS was implemented and tested in
a laboratory scenario, referred to as the prototype. The primary objective is to evaluate the functionality
and effectiveness of the methodology in achieving the proposed objectives and fulfilling the established
requirements. While the study acknowledges the significance of plant physiology, crop production, and
water consumption in irrigation processes, it primarily emphasizes assessing the performance of the
ID3SAS methodology itself.
LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE WORK: Research, tests, and validations in relation to plant
physiology and its impact on crop performance could be vital for its real-world applicability and
practical effectiveness.
7] J. Ordóñez. Blockchain (BC) et al. represents a disruptive technology that has been
extensively used to ensure immutability of digital transactions. Starting as an underlying mechanism in
the digital currency sector, it has been applicable in a wide range of sectors and application domains.
Agriculture represents a sector of significance for overall sustainability challenges that is benefiting
from digitalization and technological evolution and the enforcement of Industry 4.0 paradigm shift
towards precision agriculture. Introduction of Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems increase
overall complexity, with Big Data analysis and Machine Learning technologies paving the way for
innovative applications. BC appears to be a promising technology for agriculture introducing new
mechanisms for tracing of products and overall agricultural Supply Chain management from the farm to
the fork. The authors perform a review of 152 scientific works, providing a concise summary for each
and extracting current challenges and open issues for the application of BCin agriculture. By
synthesizing their findings, they perform a state-of-the-art analysis along the PESTELS framework.

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 8] mohammad ghiasi et al. describe the multifaceted approach presented in the paper highlights
the intricate relationship between energy management and greenhouse productivity. By integrating
renewable energy sources, leveraging smart technologies, and embracing optimized practices,
greenhouse agriculture can evolve towards a more sustainable and resource-efficient future. The paper
lays the groundwork for further research, innovation, and collaboration within the agricultural sector,
aiming to address the pressing challenges of our time. This comprehensive review serves as a valuable
resource for both academia and industry, offering insights and knowledge that can guide further
research, construction projects, and the optimal operation of smart GHs. It paves the way for the
development of efficient energy management strategies in the design of smart GHs, aligning with the
broader objective of promoting sustainable and environmentally conscious practices within the
agricultural sector.
9] E. -Y. Daraghmi et al. explain the agriculture sector stands as one of the most significant
sectors sustaining 70 percent of the world’s population. In this sector, the supply consists of a series of
interconnected stages, spanning from farming through production to the final delivery of goods to the
end customer. A lack of transparency within the supply chain presents the largest gap between suppliers
and retailers, such as not ensuring the true value of products or services. This research introduces Agro
Chain, a Blockchain-based system that is designed to support the Agricultural Supply Chain (ASC)
process. For scalability purposes, the proposed Agro Chain solution comply with a process model that
separates the registry of agricultural records from the record itself. The development of the Agro Chain
prototype along with its smart contracts that establish a transparent, yet secure, environment within the
ASC under Quorum which is Ethereum oriented network is illustrated in this research. This research
demonstrates that Blockchain networks offer a solution to manage the ASC ensuring traceability,
privacy and integrity. Moreover, the research indicates that there is a pressing need to promote the
standardization of ASC smart contracts, incorporating secure and straightforward process.
10] L. Ma et al. narrate the multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) technique is a dominant
process for resolving genuine real-life applications and investigating an ideal solution by considering
appropriate criteria or attributes. The operational laws of Schweizer-Sklar t-norms and t-conorms are
more feasible aggregation operators to serve this purpose. The prioritized aggregation operators also
capture single-term aggregated information from given evidence or collected data. In this article, author
explore the theory of the q-rung Ortho pair fuzzy (q-ROF) information to handle awkward and uncertain
information of human opinion. Motivated by the significance of the Schweizer-Sklar t-norms and

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prioritized aggregation operators, author derive a family of mathematical approaches for q-rung ortho
pair fuzzy information, including q-rung ortho pair fuzzy Schweizer-Sklar prioritized average (q-
ROFSSPA), q-rung ortho pair fuzzy Schweizer-Sklar prioritized weighted average (q-ROFSSPWA), q-
rung ortho pair fuzzy Schweizer-Sklar prioritized geometric (q-ROFSSPG)and q-run g ortho pair fuzzy
Schweizer-Sklar prioritized weighted geometric (q-ROFSSPWG) operators. Some notable properties
and characteristics are also explored to show the applicability of developed approaches. An application
for improving the economic growth of the agriculture sector and a decision algorithm is also discussed
under the q-rung ortho pair fuzzy environment.
11] E. A. Al-Shahari et al. developed the IIDC-GOADL model. The primary target of the IIDC-
GOADL approach is to identify and classify different kinds of insects. The IIDC-GOADL technique
comprises image preprocessing, Dense Net-based feature extraction, GOA-based hyperparameter tuning,
and Abi LSTM-based classification. The IIDC-GOADL method employs image preprocessing to
remove the noise quality in it. Meanwhile, the GOA can be applied to select the optimum
hyperparameter using the Dense Net technique. Furthermore, the Abi LSTM model is applied for
automated insect sorting and recognition. The experimental outcomes of the 108050 IIDC-GOADL
method are verified on an insect dataset, and the results are inspected using different measures. An
extensive comparison research highlighted an enriched act of the IIDC-GOADL method over other
systems than diverse measures. The IIDC-GOADL model, though exhibited an improved achievement
in insect detection, encounters challenges associated with environmental sensitivity and needs additional
analysis on larger datasets.
LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE WORK: Future work aims to augment adaptability to real-
world farming situations, explore optimization methods, and assess scalability across diverse crop types
and locations. Future research can explore implementing advanced data augmentation methods to
overcome these limitations. By increasing the present dataset with synthetic samples produced by the
transformations, including flipping, rotation, scaling, and adding noise, researcher workers could
efficiently increase the volume and diversity of the training dataset.
12] Onkar.R et al. describe agriculture, as the backbone of our societies, plays a pivotal role in
sustaining livelihoods and feeding the growing global population. To empower farmers with technology,
facilitate market access, and address linguistic barriers, author introduce the "HarvestHub" Farmer's E-
Commerce Application. This application, crafted in local languages, serves as a comprehensive platform

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for farmers to buy and sell a diverse range of agricultural products, including fruits, vegetables, seeds,
and fertilizers.
Limitation\Future Scope: The overarching goal of HarvestHub is to enhance market
accessibility, break language barriers, and set the stage for future advancements in agricultural
technology, particularly in the realm of plant disease prediction.
13] N. Abdullah et al. explain Conventional farming is labor-consuming and the need to
continuously monitor crops can be a burden for farmers. By realizing the concept of smart farming
based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology, farmers can use a mobile application to observe and
monitor air humidity, air temperature, and soil moisture factors that can affect plant growth.
Furthermore, the use of timers to control the pumps in conventional watering systems is not always
practical in real-life cases. This paper proposes a framework that enables advanced fuzzy logic to control
a pumps switching time according to user-dined variables, whereby sensors are the main aspect of and
contributor to the system. Our proposed idea offers great potential for excellent performance as an
interface between the sensors as the input and the IoT as the output medium. Acomparison is made
between the proposed system and manual handling. The results prove that the water consumption and
watering time has been reduced significantly.

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Proposed Methodology Model:
The Proposed methodology model is depicted in the figure 1 as mentioned below.

Figure 1:
System Overview
Diagram

The Proposed

methodology contains the following module and sub modules as mentioned below.
 Module A: Farmer, Buyer,Tansport Registration
 Input: credentials

 Process: validation

 Output: Store in Database

 Module B: Buyer/ Seller Data

 Input: Data
 Process: Validation
 Output: Store in database

 Module B: Buyer/ Seller Search

 Input: Query keywords
 Process: Preprocessing and Linear Search
 Output: Searched Results

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 Module D: Transport Allocation

 Input: Transport search Query

 Process: Linear Search
 Output: Transport allocation

Resources Required (Hardware/ Software)

Minimum Hardware Specification:
(1 Machines Required of the Following Configurations)
 CPU : core i5
 RAM : 8 GB
 HDD : 500 GB

Software Specification:
 Coding Language : Codename One
 Development Kit : JDK 1.8
 Front End : Codename One forms
 Development IDE : NetBeans 8.2
 Database : SQL Lite

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Action Plan:

Figure 2: Gantt Chart

(1 Week):
Group formation and Sample project topic selection

(2 Week):
Abstract and Synopsis

(3 Week):
Project identification and definition

(4 Week):
Proposal Submission

(1 Week – 4 Week):
Layout and design implementation

(1 Week – 4 Week):

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 Detailed Design Evaluation

(1 Week – 4 Week):
Design document and methodology

(1 Week – 4 Week):
Testing and experimental result

(1 Week – 4 Week)
Analysis of result and conclusion

(3 Week – 4 Week) :
Report document and entire work

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