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Software design and application for oil palm kisan mobile services in India

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Title Software design and application for oil palm kisan mobile services in India
 
Creator K.L. Mary Rani, Prasad, M. V., Arulraj, S. and G.Krishna Hemanth
 
Subject soft ware mobile message services
 
Description Software designed for sending mobile message services through SMS text and voice messages
Indian farmers receive agricultural information at present through several sources such as newspapers, television, telephone consultations, internet, mobile etc. Revolutionary development in information technology made mobile phones available for most of the Indian population. Due to its versatility, mobile phones have become powerful tools. In agriculture, mobile message services are used for marketing, extension/education etc. (Dhaliwal et al., 2010). Kisan call centers in the country respond to issues raised by farmers on queries related to agriculture and allied sectors (agricoop.nic.in). Agricultural short message management system aids in sending and receiving of short messages on agricultural services (Jiang et al., 2008). SMS based application responds to the query received as SMS in a particular format which retrieves the answer from the database and sends the reply as SMS to the farmer (Mitra et al.,
2006, Veeraraghavan et al., 2009). In all these, the farmer/user sends the queries to the kiosk/ agriculture database/SMS application, which then retrieves the required information from the database and sends it back to the user.
Directorate of Oil Palm Research has taken lead under Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) with the financial support of TMO&P in implementing a project on “Oil palm kisan mobile message services” (OPKiMMS) for dissemination of oil palm technology to its stake holders for improving production and productivity of oil palm in the country. As quality of information, its

timeliness and trustworthiness are the important features to be ensured to enable farmers to use it effectively to improve productivity, the content on oil palm is disseminated to the registered oil palm farmers through text and voice SMS (Mary Rani et al., 2012). The project was conceptualized to be implemented in two stages. The first stage comprised of content development and collection and compilation of mobile and land line data and publishing of the messages. The second stage was to attend to the queries raised by the farmers. This paper describes the design and development of software for providing OPKiMMS to the farmers.
The software for OPKiMMS was developed using the Waterfall model of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The software application was developed as a web based application with ASP.NET as front end and SQL Server 2008 as back end using embedded SQL queries to retrieve and update data. Reports were developed to retrieve information from the database using Crystal Reports 10.0.
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Date 2018-11-19T07:50:01Z
2018-11-19T07:50:01Z
2014-08-01
 
Type Journal
 
Identifier Mary Rani, K. L., Prasad, M. V., Arulraj, S. and G.Krishna Hemanth. 2014. Software design and application for oil palm kisan mobile services in India. Journal of Plantation Crops. 42(2):272-275
0304-5242
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/12010
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Indian Society of Plantation Crops