Harnessing the Potentials of Mobile Phone for Adoption and Promotion of Organic Farming Practices in Nigeria

摘要

The goal of organic agriculture is to show the interrelationship between farm biota, its production, and the overall environment. In cooperation with various Organic Farming unions, a system called the organic farming mobile agricultural extension services (OrgFarMob) was developed to provide farmers with instant information to problems with organic crop cultivation. Hence, this project provides organic farmers with crop lifecycle support system, leading to effective management and sustainable economic development in organic agriculture. The system powered by Azure cloud platform, was developed using Model-View-Architecture and programmed with AngularJS and Ionic. The design followed the computer research framework with incorporate users' requirement elucidation and validation. The system was designed and evaluated using data obtained through the collection of materials from professionals in the field of organic agriculture. The results showed that the system can be used in real-time and foster organic agriculture cultivation.