Abstract:
The project proposal is meant to examine ICTs' contribution to the access and utilisation of agricultural information by the farmers. The main objective of the study is to explore the contribution of ICTs to the access and utilization of agricultural information. Chapter one presents the introduction of the project where the background, problem stament,objectives scope of the project and justification. The main objective of the project is to propose a reliable Farming management system for farmers to effectively use ICTs in accessing and utilizing Agricultural information. Chapter two presents the literature review where previous researches have been done on Farming management systems. One of the early studies conducted by Rolls et al. (1994) analyzed the information system for smallholder farmers in Malaysia. They put farmers central to the information system and found their roles as producer, inventor and communicator. There was a considerable information exchange among the actors in the system and the farmers in particular were active in disseminating innovative information and technology.
Chapter three has the methodology that will be used to implement this system. Although there are several other models, waterfall model will be used since it has more advantages than the other models.This chapter also covers the time schedule for the project and an estimated budget.