Machinery Information System for Farm Management at Department of Agriculture

Abstract

In Sri Lanka there are more than 300 000[2] of farm machineries in use, but their productivity is not up to the expected level due to lack of management of these machineries. Because of that Sri Lanka losses millions of revenue for a year. To avoid that losses Department of Agriculture(DOA) of Sri Lanka has raised the importance of providing proper ICT solution to increase the production, distribution and use of farm machineries. "Machinery Information System for Farm Management" addressing above mentioned issues in farming machinery sector in Sri Lanka using web base solution. To implement that web base solution, use "firebase" mobile and web application development platform with NOSQL database. With this system farmers can easily find and rent a suitable machinery using web technology. Farming machineries used within the country will registered to system with the help of DOA. System have special administration module for the member of DOA to monitor agricultural machineries in country. With use of those technologies and combine effort system can support to increase agricultural productivity in the country.