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Accurate and easy to use Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS) areof fundamental importance for a successful operational farm management.However, still today many farmers do not use FMISs for various reasons, like lackof knowledge and the complexity of many available FMISs. In particular for smallto medium-sized farms and for multifunctional farms appropriate FMISs hardlyexist.This research project work aims on the deduction of a FMIS. The FMIS has tofocus on the needs of medium-sized and multifunctional farms. Therefore, SidiMamman farm was picked as a case-study to apply a system analysis. The casestudy farm helps to identify and to analyze relevant material and informationflows, production processes, and their interconnections and synergies.The design was taken in order to make the organization’s activities more effectiveand efficient to increase performance by making farm record and information saferand faster in retrieving such information. The problems were identified after seriesof interviews and observation after which analysis was made and a computerizedsystem was recommended. The new system was designed using PHP, VisualBasic, and MySQL as database.
TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE PAGE………………………………………………………………I
CERTIFICATION PAGE………………………………………..……….I
DEDICATION……………………………………………………………IIIACKNOWLEDGEMENT………………………………………………...IV
ABSTRACT………………………………………………………………..V
TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………………..VI
CHAPTER ONE……………………………………………………………1
INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………….1
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY………………………………..1
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS………………………………3
1.3 AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY………………………..4
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY………………………………....5
1.5 SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY…………………6
1.6 DEFINITION OF OPERATIONAL TERMS……………………….6
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE……………….7
2.1 FARM MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM………………7
2.2 INFORMATION SYSTEM…………………………………………..9
2.3 FUNCTIONS OF INFORMATION SYSTEM…………………….....10
2.4 TYPES OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS……………………………..12
2.5 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM……………………….14
2.6 BENEFITS OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM………16
2.7 COMPONENT OF A DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM…….17
CHAPTER THREE…………………………………………………………….19
SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN………………………………………...19#
3.1 INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………...19
3.2 ANALYSIS OF EXISTING SYSTEM AND DESIGN………………..21
3.3 WEAKNESS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM………………………….21
3.4 DATA COLLLECTION………………………………………………..22
3.5 ANALYSIS OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM………………………….23
3.5.1 ALGORITHM………………………………………………………….24
3.6 DATABASE DESIGN…………………………………………………27
DATE 27FOLLOW-UP NOTES………………………………………………………….27
CHAPTER FOUR………………………………………………………………29
IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION………………………………….29
4.1 PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT…………………………………………29
4.1.1 DESIGN STANDARD………………………………………………….29
4.1.2 OUTPUT SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN……………………………..29
4.1.3 INPUT DESIGN AND SPECIFICATION……………………………..30
4.1.4 FEED RECORD SHEET – FR…………………………………………..30
4.1.5 RECORD OF DISEASE OCCURRENCES IN HERD – RDD…………30
4.1.6 INPUT PURCHASE RECORDS – IPR…………………………………31
4.1.7 PESTICIDE APPLICATION RECORDS – PA…………………………31
4.1.8 SALES RECORDS – SR………………………………………………...32
4.1.9 STAFF EMPLOYMENT FORM………………………………………..32
4.1.10FILE DESIGN…………………………………………………………..33
4.2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS…………………………………………..33
4.2.1 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS…………………………………………33
4.2.2 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS………………………………………33
4.3 SYSTEM INTERFACE………………………………………………….33#
4.3.1 INPUT INTERFACE…………………………………………………….34
4.3.2 OUTPUT INTERFACE…………………………………………………36
4.4 SYSTEM PERFORMANCE……………………………………………38
4.5 SYSTEM TRAINING…………………………………………………..3
4.6 CONVERSION TO THE PROPOSED SYSTEM………………………39
4.7 SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION…………………………………………40
4.7.1 OPERATIONAL MANNUAL………………………………………….40
4.7.2 USER’S MANUAL……………………………………………………..40
4.8 SYSTEM MAINTENANCE……………………………………………41
CHAPTER FIVE:SUMMARY
5.1 SUMMARY…………………………………………………………….42
5.2 RECOMMENDATIONS……………………………………………….42
5.3 CONCLUSION…………………………………………….…………48
REFERENCEAPPENDIX……………………………………………………………………..45
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