The Design And Implementation Of An E-Farming System Application For Bello Gostu Farms

ABSTRACT

There are so many farmers in Nigeria with good products, the kind that someone somewhere wants to buy, but one of many problems that buyers face is that they have no access to the poultry producers or don’t even know those products exits. Now, Bello Gostu Farms App is an app that is developed to tackle the aforementioned. The purpose of the app is to enable users to surf through and find the available products from all parts of the nation. Also, to tackle the issue of “insufficient funds” as the app provides methods of payment which are Full Payment: Where the buyer pays in full for the products upon collection from the vendor, Dual-instalment Payment: Where the buyer pays for the product within two instalments. The buyer will pay half or more at first, and then eventually pay the rest by Direct Debit upon bank Guarantee before a certain period, and Multi-Instalment Payment: Where the user will pay 50% instantly and six subsequent monthly payment of a certain percentage of the agreed price by Direct Debit upon bank Guarantee within six months. Which means the user can pay the other half within the next six months or less depending on how financially sound the customer is (mostly for business owners). The test methodologies that were adopted and used for this are the Waterfall and Agile methodology. Waterfall development methodology was used because the overall architecture from the start to the end boundaries of the app gives a waterfall feel. This is because all the processes involved lead to each other systematically. However, since there are places where there are some unknowns, this will then bring about the use of Agile Development Methodology to design those components of the app. The software was implemented using C# for the logic and SQL server for the backend.