DECISION SUPPORT

SYSTEM FOR
FARM
MANAGEMENT

SHANKARI BHATTACHARYYA

09MCS047
PURPOSE:

The software is the decision support system for Farm Management. It provides the following
facilities:

1) OPERATORS

 They can enter details related to a particular crop.

 They can provide membership to farmers.

2) ADMIN/MANAGER

 They can read and write information about any member.

 They can update create; delete the record of membership as per
requirement and implementation plans.

3) FARMERS

 They can get related information about the crop.

 They will be able to know the various production options utilize the
results of the latest technology and development of research.
 They will be able to access the necessary information regarding the
various Government policies for agriculture.
 They can be benefited by the ongoing socio economic research and the
different entrepreneur for investing in particular area of farm
management.

THE SOFTWARE INCLUDES:

  Maintaining the various details regarding farming say about pesticides, crop,
moistures, water etc.
 It maintains the various government policies, new research development and the
recent technology advancement.
 Report generation that is agricultural report.

SCOPE:
It can be used by any Farming Organization in rural area where farming is the main
occupation, so that the farmers can get all the information just at a click of the mouse and they
need not travel to Agricultural Universities.

OVERVIEW:
The emergence of information technology has resulted in an ever-increasing demand to
use computers for the efficient management and dissemination of information. Keeping in view
the strong need of farmers to collect important and updated information for interactive,
flexible and quick decision-making, a model of Decision Support System for Farm Management
is developed. A model is developed for the farmers to access online interactive and flexible
information for their farm management. The workflow of the model is presented highlighting
the information transfer between different modules.

OVERALL DESCRIPTION:
It is known fact that agriculture is one of the most important sectors for human beings
all over the world. In India near about 70% of population depend upon agriculture. The credit of
the increased production of the agriculture products in the past could be given to the efforts of
farmers. Now when the production is stagnating it has become essential that the farmers
collect important and updated information about any of the crop.

So there is a need for development of dynamic website for farm entrepreneur which could help
them in day-to-day decision taking. The business of farming has entered a new era – an age
where key to success is perfect, timely information and careful decision making. International
competition has resulted in a continued pressure on profit margins. Moreover, the farmer has
to decide about various production options utilizing the results of latest developments of
research and technology. Informed and quick decision making is therefore required to ensure
profitable performance of the farmers. Decision support systems are a class of computer-based
information systems including knowledge based systems that support decision making
activities. DSS is a computerized system for helping make decisions
The aim of this project is to give timely information to the farmers is closely linked to the
Agricultural Development and well-being of the rural communities, and quick information
transfer between the researchers and the farmers.

GOALS OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM:

1) Accuracy:

The level of accuracy in the proposed system will be higher. All operation would be done
accurately and it ensures that whatever information coming from the center is accurate.

2) Reliability:

The reliability of the proposed system will be high due to the above stated reasons. The
reason for the increased reliability of the system is that now there would be proper
storage of information.

3) No Redundancy:

In the proposed system utmost care would be that no information is repeated

anywhere, in storage or otherwise. This would assure economic use of storage space
and consistency in the data stored

4) Immediate retrieval of information:

The main objective of proposed system is to provide for a quick and efficient retrieval of
information. Any type of information would be available whenever the user requires.

FEASIBILITY STUDY:
In feasibility study phase the various steps which are describe as under:

1. Identify the origin of the information at different level.

2. Identify the expectation of user from computerized system.

 3. Analyze the drawback of existing system (manual) system.

PHASE OF DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (FIGURE 1):

INELLIGENCE PHASE:

 Data Collection.
 Problem Identification.
REALITY
 Problem specification.
 Problem Statement.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

VALIDATION
OF THE DESIGH PHASE:
MODEL
 Formulate a Model.
 Search for Alternative.
 Set criteria for Choice.
 Predict and measure outcome.

ALTERNATIVES
VERIFICATION
TESTING OF
PROPOSED SYSTEM
CHOICE PHASE:

 Solution of the model

 Selection of the best alternatives
 Plan for the implementation

SOLUTION

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
SOLUTION

SUCCESS FAILURE

MODELS:
 As the System is an internet based system, so we can consider it as CRITICAL system.
And it is a new technology, so we can say PROTOTYPE MODEL along with SPIRAL MODEL is best
suited for the system.

Based with the View Point Analysis we can say this system based on FUNCTIONAL
VIEWPOINT, and DATA FLOW DIAGRAM is best suited for this system.

PROPOSED FLOW SYSTEM: (FIGURE 2)

AGRICULTURE AND
AGRO MARKET

EXTENSION
GOVT.
AGRICULTURA EXTENSION FARMER
ORGANIZATIO
L POLICIES AGENT
N

SOCIO ECONOMIC
RESEARCH
The proposed flow system for farm management is shown in Fig. 2.

The farmers will be able to access the necessary information regarding the various government
policies for agriculture, the ongoing socio-economic research and the different benefits for the
entrepreneur for investing in particular area of farm management. The Farmers can acquire this
information from:

• Farmer’s organizations
• Researchers
• Other Farmers
• Farm journals, radio, television, Government Departments and agencies.

The primary and the basic fundamental of any project involving the database is the collection of
data and information. This project also requires the collection of information from various
sources. The main source of the data is the service Published by the state or center
Government. The present model will help the farmers to take interactive, flexible and quick
decisions. This will also help them in increasing their productivity by raising yield per hectare in
food grain, thus leading to their economic growth. It will keep track of farmer’s all type of
information related to crops.
The additional advantages that will accrue are:

 Low cost of operation

 Quick access to all relevant information.
 Direct and personalized.
 Integrated.

A large number of database queries can be generated according to Crop, Water Availability and
Requirement, Socio-economic constraints and so on. Design and Development of this database
is purely based on Relation Database Management System Model, so the large volume of
queries can be easily handled. DSS with all the ready information help the farmers in a very
useful manner. The farmers can get all the information at just a click of the mouse.
DATA FLOW DIAGRAM:

CONTEXT DIAGRAM—LEVEL 0 DIAGRAM

REPORT GENERATE
FARMER AGRICULTURAL
FARMER
DETAILS REPORT

FARM
MANAGEMNET

0
VARIOUS POLICIES
AND THER
NFORMATION
ADMIN /MANAGER
INFORMATION RETRIEVES THE FARMER
INFORMATION
CENTER ETAILS
 LEVEL 1 DFD:

FARMER DEATAILS

INFORMATION
ID_NO REGISTER CENTER
FARMER RETRIVIES
DEATAILS OF 0.2
0.1 FARMING

FARMER DATA KNOWLEDGE _BASE

GENERATE
AGRICULTURAL
REPORT LIST REPORT

0.3
 LEVEL 2 DFD:

SENSOR DATA
CROP SENSOR
DETAIL
CLIMATE SENSOR CROP SENSOR_DATA
DETAILS
OBTAIN
SENSOR GOVERNMENT
OBATAIN DATA POLICIES
SENSOR DATA
0.2.2.3
0.2.2.2

GOVT TERMS AND

CONDITION
OBTAIN 0.2.2.4
SURVEY
INFORMATION CATEGORIZE BASED ON
SURVEY DETAILS DATA TYPE OF CROP
0.2.2.1 CENTER

SURVEY_DATA 0.2.1

CROP INFO

SEARCH

0.2.2

REPORT
GENERATION

GENERATE AGRICULTURAL REPORT

FARMERS TRANSACTION

+name
+get
+add_info information
+id no +store data
#show details

#change #transfer data

FARM

MANAGEMEN
T

+account info

+details

#show details

OTHER GOVERNMENT
POLICIES
POLICIES

+schema name
+fertilizers
name +schema
profits
+moisture

#various
details #schema
Figure above shows the class diagram

FUTURE SCOPE:
The Scope for the future research is:

• The Farm Entrepreneur System can be made more useful for the farmers by converting the
language of the system to the local language
• Further development of the economic model is required in order to address more
complicated resource management patterns effectively.
• Market information relating to prices of the crop, particularly if quoted higher than the
maximum support price offered by the government.
• Information transfer to the farmers can be increased substantially by providing email, news
groups, messenger services, online chatting, and discussion groups.

CONCLUSION:

The model will help the farmers in increasing their productivity by raising the yield/hectare in
food grains: thus, leading to their economic growth. This system has been developed to keep
track of farmers all type of information related to crops.

• Farmers can manage their cash flow through the DSS system in a more predictable and
efficient way. It is a more common problem with the farmers to manage the cash received at
time of harvesting the crop.
• They can avail full benefit of their cash management by co-relating it with the loans and
advances.
• The administrator can add information to the database without stopping the application.
• If implemented at Village, District and State level, the model will provide valuable information
to other agencies and panchayats in particular.

REFERENCES:

Various IEEE Papers.