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Evaluation and Improvement of Farmers Market Information System to Connect with Some Social Stakeholders

Authors : Isakwisa Gaddy Tende, Shin-Ichiro Kubota, Kentaro Aburada, Naonobu Okazaki

Published in: Advances in Network-Based Information Systems

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Large part of Tanzania population are rural smallholder farmers. Due to lack of market information, farmers sell their crops to middlemen at lower prices and hence don’t get enough profits. Previously we developed WEB and SMS (Short Message Service) based Farmers Market Information System using Waterfall model which replies farmers’ requests for market prices of crops through SMS. We then improved the system to enable farmers to access crop buyers’ details through SMS and crop buyers to access farmers’ details through SMS or WEB. In this paper we evaluate effectiveness of the system after implementing it in Tanzania in SWAHILI language. We also improve the system to enable farmers and crop buyers to access crop demand report before selling or buying crops. Findings show that the system helped farmers to increase incomes and access market information in shorter time. The system was also easy to learn and use.

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Metadata
Title
Evaluation and Improvement of Farmers Market Information System to Connect with Some Social Stakeholders
Authors
Isakwisa Gaddy Tende
Shin-Ichiro Kubota
Kentaro Aburada
Naonobu Okazaki
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Advances in Network-Based Information Systems

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-65520-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-65521-5

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65521-5_37

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