ABSTRACT
In recent years, electronic commerce of agricultural products has developed rapidly. In the development process of agriculture, with the help of some agricultural research institutes putting up websites for their various institutes, where farmers can read up how to improve productivity or some improved varieties (seedlings, cassava stems etc) to use in their farms but a platform has not been laid for the implementation of the sale of agricultural produce. The author discussed some forms of agriculture, analyzes and summarizes the challenges farmers face in selling their farm products online with respect to not having some infrastructures and equipments due to the governments’ nonchalant attitude towards making the nation putting in her God given talents, industriousness, skills and mineral resources (fertile land, crude oil etc.) into agriculture to boost the nations’ economy again. Finally, the author puts forward suggestions on the development of electronic commerce of agricultural products.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Cover page i
Title page ii
Certification page iii
Dedication page iv
Acknowledgment page v
Table of content vi
Abstract vii
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction 1
Background of Study 1
Statement of Problem 2
Objectives of Study 3
Significance of Study 3
Scope of Study 3
Limitations of Study 4
Definition of Terms 4
Block diagram of proposed system 5
CHAPTER TWO
Literature review 6
What is an E-SHOP 6
Forms of agricultural production 7
Existing agricultural systems 9
Agricultural Research Institutes 10
Why Electronic Shop for Agricultural Produce (ESAP) 13
The Internet 14
Challenges of E-shop in Nigeria 15
CHAPTER THREE
Research methodology 17
Method of data collection 17
Overview of existing system 21
System analysis and design 24
Analysis of the new system 24
System development life cycle 25
Requirement analysis 26
Data requirement 26
Process requirement 27
Use case diagrams 28
Entity relationship diagram 31
Objectives of proposed system 32
Design tools and modelling of proposed system 32
CHAPTER FOUR
System design and implementation 34
Input form design 35
Output form design 36
Database design 36
System requirement 37
Hardware requirement 37
Software requirement 38
Program design 39
CHAPTER FIVE
Summary 41
Conclusion 41
Recommendations 41
References 42
