Agriculture Assist

INTRODUCTION
Farming Scholar Group is an idea to help the farmers regarding
Agriculture in order to give awareness by conducting camps. This website is
developed on this concept, students can enroll as volunteers, and the
university representatives (NGOs) are provided with these volunteers to
conduct the camps.
Further, the website also serves as an online portal, which provides
complete information about Agriculture in the form of articles, videos and
audio. It also consists of registration and login pages so as to interact well. The
articles are written by the professors of that particular university. This bridges
the gap between the NGOs, volunteers and villagers.
The system has five types of users. They are:
Admin
Professors
Village Representatives
Students(volunteers or users)
The outsiders
The admin is the one who has full control. He is the one who creates a
login id and password for the village representative. He can make change to
the database by adding articles or any files to the website and can also
delete unnecessary details such as details regarding camps which are
already taken place. If the university people plan for any events such as
camps, the information regarding them will be posted by the admin itself.
The professors of a particular university can also register as members
and they will be given permission to view the articles, events and so on. It is

the professors who post the articles in the website. The main task of the
professors is that, they are given permission to answer to the queries posted
to them by the village representative of any particular village.
It is very difficult to conduct awareness camps in rural areas because of the
lack of interaction between people who are interested to participate in the
Agriculture Camps and NGOs which are interested in organizing such camps.
Using this website we can make this task a lot simpler by assigning one village
representative for each individual village who will be responsible for guiding the
farmers. The village representative helps the farmers by reading the existing or
newly posted articles, videos, audio regarding seeds, pesticides, equipments,
latest technologies, precautions for farming from the website. If incase, there are
any queries, and if the village representative is not sure about the answer, then
he will post the queries directly to the professors which will be later answered by
them.
The students of the university can also enroll as the volunteers by
getting registered in the website and are given permission to view all the
articles, and upload the video audio files. By viewing the events page, if any
of the students would like to be a volunteer for the camps, they can
personally go and enroll their names.
The outsider is one who is new to this system and wishes to know the
information through the website. He can go through the homepage, contact
details and articles.
The main reason for developing this project is to guide the rural people
who are unaware of the farming techniques and concepts which play a major
role for the development of India in the field of Agriculture.

1.1 Motivation
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The proposed system will aim to automate all the activities and
eliminate all the drawbacks that the existing system of manual as well as
web based operations faces. The important features of the proposed system
are listed below:
Farming Scholar Group should be something different when
compared with other websites.
Restrictions are for normal users where they cannot go further.
They should be some difference between professors, students,
village representatives and the normal users.
They should be some files which can un-authorized for normal
users.
All authorization and authentication are based on the username and
password.
Admin has option of viewing files present in each category in server.
Admin

will

be

having

complete

details

about

the

village

representatives, articles, files and so on.

Users can upload or download the files from the network.
Admin alone can delete, modify, upload, update files where as
others cannot.
The system will be developed in a modular fashion and will be well
documented. This facilitates new modules and functionality to be added
without much unwarranted effort and troubles.

1.2 Problem Definition

NGOs (Non Government Organizations) run websites which consist of
information which help the farmers in order to give awareness regarding
farming technologies. These websites hold information about the following:

 Pesticides

Manure

seeds

equipments

wallpapers of farm fields and equipments

But the major problem that occurred in this system is, most of the
farmers in India are illiterates and do no know how to access the internet and
are not able to utilize the facilities provided by the NGOs. For this reason,
the NGOs or the volunteers will have to personally meet the farmers and
explain them about the farming technique which is found to be the
drawback. This is due to the reason; the NGOs and the volunteers will not
have sufficient time to visit all the villages and organize camps. It is also very
difficult to conduct camps in rural areas due to lack of interaction between
people who are interested to participate in the awareness camps.
Apart from the above mentioned problems, existing websites do not
contain querying system i.e... If the farmers have any queries regarding the
farming techniques, they cannot post them into the website and their doubts
remain unanswered. Moreover, apart from NGO websites there are many
more

website

which

do

contain

information

regarding

the

farming

techniques, seeds, pesticides and also have querying system. The problem
arise here is that, those queries may or may not be answered because no
person in particular are appointed to answer them, and only the users who
logs into the site can answer those questions but there is a possibility that
the user may not know the answer.

1.3 Objective of the Project

The main objective of the project is to develop an efficient system
which will automate the activities of the university representatives. The

proposed system will help the representatives to reduce there time spent in
going around for the camps and also helps in providing better and user
friendly services to all the users.
The project has to design and implement a system as listed:
Creating database.
Providing data updating facility for the admin.
Generating random ID and password for the professors, village
representatives and the student volunteers which are unique.
Ability to upload the audio and video files.
Ability to download the articles.
Querying system.
Maintaining the record of the queries in the database.
Maintaining the record of the answers for the queries.
Ability to view files placed on different machines.
The uploaded file can be viewed from network.
Maintaining database for the articles and files.
Providing necessary information regarding the camps that will be
conducted in different villages.
Providing necessary information about fertilizers and pesticides.
Providing wallpapers.

1.4 Limitations of the Project

In order to make the Awareness camp conduction easy, this project
provides Event-scheduler which integrates the place, time, topic, volunteers
and related files like videos and presentations at one place on the web. The
system depends on few parameters. These parameters are as outlined
below.

 All the users are not given accessibility to view all the contents of
the website.
Every individual student of the university should register as
volunteers by providing the correct details.
The user ID for the session is maintained by the admin.
Even the professors of the university should create any account
in the website.
Professors are given permission to reply to the queries and write
the articles.
Village representative id is created by the admin because the
village representative will be appointed for the villages by the
university representatives.
Only village representatives are given permission to post the
queries to the professors and they can be viewed only by the
professors and admin and not the students.
Students are permitted to upload the files and are allowed to
browse the website, events and articles.

1.5 Organization of Documentation

This project mainly deals with the development of a web portal which
will be helpful for the farmers. It is provided with information regarding the
farming techniques, fertilizers, pesticides and so on with user friendly
environment. The first chapter gives us a clear cut view of the proposed
system, the problems in the existing system, and limitations of the proposed
system and the objective of the proposed system.
The second chapter deals with the introduction of the existing
system, limitations of the existing system and the analysis of the information
that has been gathered. The third chapter deals with the analysis phase. In
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analysis phase, we give the clear view of the requirements of the project
such

as

user

requirements,

software

requirements

and

hardware

requirements. It also consists of the system architecture that is the content

diagram of the project along with the flow chart.
The fourth chapter consists of the design phase of the project. It
basically includes the DFD diagrams and the UML diagrams. It also consists
of the module design and organization. The fifth chapter deals with the
implementation and results which further consists of login forms, output
screens and result that has bee analyzed. Finally, the last chapter consists of
the test cases and validation phase. It gives the clear view of how the tests
have been applied to the project.

LITERATURE SURVEY

2.1 Introduction
This chapter mainly deals with the existing system and how the
NGOs help the rural people in order to give awareness about agriculture
techniques. The first step of preliminary study in the system analysis process
involves the identification of needs for a website which give good interactive
and friendly atmosphere.. The motivation behind this project is to give
access of different files to user across the network. Thus, this chapter gives a
clear view of the existing system as well as the constraints and limitations of
the existing system.

2.2 Existing System

Many of the Non Government Organizations help the rural people
through network in order to give awareness about farming. They run
websites by providing information which is essential for a farmer such as
information about the following:
Pesticides
Manure
Seeds
Equipments
Articles of different technologies used for farming in different countries.
This information is highly important for proper growth of crops. Most
of the farmers in India are illiterate and since they do not know how to
access internet, they are not able to utilize the facilities these NGOs are
providing. Apart from this, the NGOs conduct camps in different villages.
Due to lack of communication and knowing the advantages of attending the
camps, only the interested candidates will attend the camp. However, few
other websites hold additional information about farming like weather,
wallpapers of farm fields and equipments and so on.Moreover, there are

many books which give detailed information about the farming techniques,
pesticides, manure, seeds, weather and equipments.

2.2.1 Drawbacks in Existing System

There are many existing websites which gives loads of
information about agriculture and the latest technologies. But still there arise
problems in the existing system. One such reason is illiteracy. Illiteracy in
India leads to many such constraints. They are as follows:
As many of the rural people in India are illiterates, they are unable to
access the internets and gather information about agriculture.
Due to lack of interaction among the people, the farmers are unaware
about the camps that are held in different villages.
There is lot of manual work to be done.
Queries cannot be answered in the websites.
The villagers have to wait for the NGO volunteers to visit their villages
for the next time which may even take months.

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5.3.2 output screens

Home page:

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Admin login page:

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