Direct Food Commodity e-Trade Centre for Farmers

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a model for farmers and traders which results agricultural trading into an electronic exchange between the farmers and consumers in the agricultural supply chain. The number of consumers is increasing day by day whereas we could not see any commendable increase in the number of producers. Traditionally farmers have been selling their commodities through committees. There they are facing several problems in fixing the cost of their products which lead them to be in an economically poor state due to the involvement of middle persons. In order to avoid the involvement of commissioning agents (Middle-Persons) in between the farmers and the traders, we introduce a system E-FTM (Electronic Farmer Trader Mandi). Through this system farmers can sell their commodities directly with the traders without any middle person and get their right payback according to the quality of their commodities. By using this application the farmers and traders can directly contact each other and trade. It also reduces the time taken to sell their commodities and to get their payback at appropriate time. Ultimately, this project will help the farmers in uplifting their poverty situation.