E-farmer Management System for Agrarian Service Centre in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Agrarian service centres are established all around the country with the objective of overall improvement of agriculture sector in Sri Lanka. The major problem of the current system was identified as the lack of communication between the agrarian officers and the farmers. The objective of the research is to give a feasible solution for the identified problems and to enhance the productivity of agrarian service centre. The system provides information to get decisions about current productions, meeting schedules, agri-business, available agrarian technology related information, crop details and forum discussions through the internet in the forms of text and images. The E-farmer Management System (EFMS) would be built with the use of Web based technology with C# language, to provide integration and accessibility for the benefit of the users. The system uses centralized database system where all the clients are able to connect to EFMS network. This research was conducted using quantitative and qualitative methodologies. To expose quantitative values, document reviews were used. To expose qualitative values, interviews, observations and case studies were used. EFMS is the best solution for farmers who face lack of communication and efficiency of the agrarian service centres in Sri Lanka. It will give a new phase to the Sri Lankan agricultural sector