Upliftment of socio-economical life style of farmers through farmer's data network

Abstract

India is a country dominated by villages. Agriculture is the main occupation in India. Development of any country is dependent on the healthy status of farmers. Farmer is suffering from various problems mainly due to the lack of unity among farmers and no union to support farmers. Technology is not reaching the farmers directly. This paper discusses an innovative solution which proposes the joint effort of Non Government social Organization and Engineers, to help farmers and ease the task of Government and avoid losses occurring due to mismanagement. This idea suggests that, initially a data network has to be created to link each farmer's data of each village to all Talukas, Each Taluk to Districts and to state. This is carried out by software projects using DBMS and VB.Net. Projects are the part of engineering curriculum and societal need based projects help in enhancement of learning. A Non-Government Organization manages to collect the information about each farmer's requirement such as seeds, fertilizers and manures. This information is passed to manufacturers and with the assistance and co-operation of Government and concerned banks, materials will be supplied to NGO who in-turn manages to supply to each village farmers. Similarly, at the harvest time, crop yield estimation of each village is done through the network. This information is provided to large buyers and exporters, through NGO and money transaction is again through NGO to each farmer. It is estimated that by this supply chain management farmer will get his market at his door steps. Precision agriculture information is stored in the database. Farmer can get the timely suggestions and assistance at village level NGO only through the software. Thus we can expect that farmer's life style can be improved by this supply chain management designed through collaborative work of NGO and engineers.