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Farm Management Information System
Farm Management Information System
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ABSTRACT
Finally, the researcher summarized the findings from the data gotten.
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TABLE OF CONTENT
Title page
Certification
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of content
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 Introduction
1.5 Methodology
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CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
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4.2 Input specification and design
4.3 File design
4.4 Procedure chart
4.5 System chart
4.6 System requirement
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 Implementation
5.1 Program design
5.2 Program flow chart
5.3 Pseudocode
CHAPTER SIX
DOCUMENTATION
CHAPTER SEVEN
REFERENCES
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
production. Before a piggry farm could stand, there must be a boar at least,
organization was essentially operated with a great deal of human efforts, and
infact the activities of the organization in this system is less challenging, less
information systems remain the system that aim at providing information for
the management on a regular basis. This call to mind the time value of
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information which implies that when the required information is received
behind the period it will be used, the information become useless. Mis dries to
could not attract such performance due to the lack of effective information tool
which can provide the management with quality and needed information and at
needed time. This system always result to information over local which
The only information tha can accelerate the management decision performance
is the information that process the good quality of information. Such qualities
of information comprises:
(1) Relevance
(2) Accuracy
(3) Completeness
(4) Reliability
(5) Timeliness
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Despite these qualities management cannot achieve their objectives. The
decision performance also depend on the manager himself. The manager must
Due to the show mentioned faults and errors associated with the existing
a computerized system.
to let the blowing wind reach the farm managers (piggry farm managers) in
package that contains a lot of files and records the file that was designed in
detail is a sales file which each of it record consist of files like varieties of pigs,
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1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
operation with about three kinds of animals sections, poultry department and
owner, the manager (DSP) did not relent at all instead he worked indefatigably
management. That was when the idea of introducing piggry farm section was
origin of piggry farm in this management. The piggry farm they said has
provide worthwhile, it has contributed a lot to the labor market and to the
management itself. The piggry farm are divided into subsection headedby DSP
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(1) Stock keeping (2) Feeding (3) Maintenance
(4) Health care, (5) finance, (6) Accounting (7) Marketing and Sales
The objective that led to this research work is basically to expose the
Nigeria farmers in general and especially NPADSCE farmer manager with the
system. That is to replace manual mis with computerized Mis. The researcher
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1.2.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
It is very unfortunate that the technology potentials has not been fully or
little farm managers has grabbed this powerful it opportunities. This has put
follows:
- Management decline
- Immobility etc.
In the event of the above mentioned faults and errors discovered in the
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Mis will change the whole thing positively. It will totally eliminate the
inherent problem which will in turn bring about immense cash value to Nigeria
It will definitely expose and enlighten the staff and managers of farm in
both the headquarters and other branches nationwide to be able to defined their
the findings will let of immense benefits to all Nigeria farm managers and as
well to students conducting similar research work on the same or related topics.
from many areas, But, in the view of the time given for this research such a
wide range could not be reached. The researcher therefore, concentrated on the
command Enugu. The choice of sales Mis was due to the time factor.
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1.5 METHODOLOGY
The source from which the necessary data were elicited for carryout this
Maria Ebuche was interviewed and she was kind enough to respond to the
department to check rules are being obeyed and standard and acceptable. He
Boar -This a male pig that has grown to a point that can pregnant a sow.
Confine System – This is type of management system that does not interact
with the system’s environment. The pigs under this system are controlled they
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are not expose to the environment, their feeding and all management are
manipulate data.
data.
performance.
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Management - The process of procuring, allocating, combing and utilizing
Mobility – This ability of information to move from one point to another, from
Open System – This a system that interact with its environments. The pigs
reared in this system are always expose to the environment, its feeding and
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Software – The programs that control the computer operation the system
CHAPTER ONE: This introduces you to the topic, runs through the
system.
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CHAPTER TWO
The essence of this chapter is to review the attempt other researchers and
authors have made in texts. There was very limited book or attempt to review,
it is just about two to three persons have had a contribution to this topic.
behaviours caused by the information less the cost of the information. In other
words, given a set of possible decisions a decision maker will select on the
to make, the value of the new information is the difference in value between
the out come of the old decision, less the cost of obtaining the information”.
system can be regarded as the prior technology for two farm managers,
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management at all levels. Lalittout information, farm managers will just grind
to a half.
from the data. The farm manager typically has a large multitude of data, but a
nonrandom symbols which represents quantities, actions, things, and so far to.
Information is data that has been processed into a form that is meaningful to
decision. Hence, information is data that have been evaluated in the context of
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Donough defined MIS as “Logical configuration of the significant element in a
supplying the decision makers. (the managers) with information for making
This shows that poor management information system can lead to a total
Computtering a system is to hand over all man activities / manual activities like
Jorue Alvarez & peter Nuthall in their research work (2000) “Given that
edict (eg from Bank lender), nor due o technological necessity, the research
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hypothesis is that information innovation adoption depends on the concurrent
Knowledge gap between the software developer and user. This gap
involves the knowledge and information that each farmer possess and
occurs.
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According to them, “successful use of information system depends on
farmers existing work environment. The better this fit, the greater the
design, output type and design and integration with the other
friendliness. The greater the friendliness, the more likely will the
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Mis which started from stage one (1) data processing to the last stage which is
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CHAPTER THREE
mind the time value of information which implies that when the required
operated with a great deal of human efforts – manual and infact the activities of
farming at that time were less challenging, less complex and enhance farming
farming, jobs for both managers and their subordinates are change as the
farming designs are also changing by becoming flatter and more organic
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3.1 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM.
Just as it has been said earlier farm management information system has
been manually operated, infact all the activities like input, process and output
analysis have been manually driven and as result, this system was associated
with many problems and to wipeout those problem, hence a call for indebt
study of the existing system and automating it in order other to achieve the
proosed objectives.
him to find out the problems to the system and devised a solution. During this
process of data collection, three things were borne in mind; understanding the
system, the requirement and how the objectives and requirements are met, and
With these goal in mind and due to the nature of this research work, only
two methods of data collection were used being interview and observation.
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3.2.1 INTERVIEW
The farm manager Nigeria Prison Agric Project State Command Enugu
were interview on: how they manage and control the farm?, how the
encountered in the system?, the level of decision performance and how the goal
3.2.2 OBSERVATION
is not documented and the management goal has not been achieved.
This system has its major inputs as the varieties of pig quantity, price
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3.4 PROCESS ANALYSIS
collect, organize, and arrange them. After this arrangement, manager then
OUTPUT FORM
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PIG QTY PRICE TAKE SUB- TAX TOTAL GRAND
The existing system due to its manual nature, has so many problems
such as
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The existing system as mentioned above is associated with many
problems. Hence, the need for a well organized and easy package that put to
an end all the short-comings of the manual system. This new system make it
possible and easy to browse the whole compilation within a second and be
equipped with needed information at the needed time for decision – making.
existing system, you will just select the variety you need and all the
information about all these varieties available but computer does it within a
second. Infact, the new system makes work easier and more accurate and neat.
need arize.
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CHAPTER FOUR
The new system is designed with pain taking design, designing the files
designed in away that once you select any of the named variety (i.e. Enter
variety) all the information will be displayed and manager or any person can
which shows the step by step of coding the program. Beside the full format of
The output of this system displays on the screen or sends to the printer
the structured list of pigs. The information concerning any choosen variety
will be displayed under it. The system is capable of displaying the pigs with its
informations. Thus.
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CODE AWAY TOTAL TOTAL
Piglet X XX X XXX X XXX XXX
Pocker XX XXX X XXXX X XXX XXXX
Sow XX XXX X XXXX X XXXX XXXX
boar X XXXX X XXXX X XXXX XXXXX
The system accepts the inputs as regards the pigs and then write the
SALES INFORMATION
Quantity O Pocker
O Sow
Item amount
O Boar
Take away
Calculate
Sub Total
Tax
Total due
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4.3 FILE DESIGN
Two database files are designed here do serve as a storage medium for
the new system. It stores all the information concerning all the pigs entered.
The two files contain the pig records, as they were entered and store pig
records which is produced by the system. However, the two files have the
same field name, the same field type and equal field lengths.
The first file “pig record” is written to whenever there is input and stores
the data while the second file “Pig record” can only be read from as the output
of the system.
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Price Currency Auto
Password demand
Form Display
Output Display
Exit
Close
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RETURN
VALUE DATA
NUMERIC DATA
INPUT
STORAGE DISPLAY
SOURCE FILE
DOCUMENT
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PROCESS
4.6 SYSTEM REQUIREMENT
For proper implementation and use of this new system, the following
- Input devices
- Output devices
- Processor
- Storage devices
(2) Printer
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(3) VISUAL BASIC (VB) Compiler
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CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 IMPLEMENTATION
system and help system. The main menu is controlled by the control program
and the controlled program co-ordinate the sub-programs, whenever any of the
The file maintenance enable the users to make changes or modify the file
when the need arise and also exit the file which help to take control back to the
main menu.
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5.1 PROGRAM DESIGN
old system is divided into unit since it was operated manually and each of the
In this new system it is broken down into subsystem and the subsystem
is further divided into program modules each module handle a specific taxt
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5.2 PROGRAM FLOW CHART
Start
IS
PASSWORD
CORRECT ?
SELECT VARIETY
ENTER QUANTITY
IS PRICE
VARIETY
SELECTED ?
DISPLAY PRICE
CALCULATE ITEMAMOUNT,
TOTALDUE, AND GRANDTOTAL
DISPLAY ITEMAMOUNT,
TOTALDUE, AND GRANDTOTAL 38
CLEAR FOR NEW ORDER
DISPLAY SUMMARY
DO YOU
WANT TO
TERMINATE
THIS
PROGRAM
EXIT
STOP
5.3 PSEUDOCODE
BEGING
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“ is quantity entered?”, if yes, then
End
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CHAPTER SIX
6.0 DOCUMENTATION
All writer-ups about this topic are documented and the document is an
written instructions explaining to the users (software users) what the software
is all about, what the software can do and how to do it, how to handle it and so
on. The Documentation help even a lay man who want to use the software.
With this document any layman can possible use the software.
performance it entails how the system works or function, what can be achieved
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(2) Click START button
(8) Double click “Julieth”, then click “Pig and a farm will appear.
(10) Click Run from the icon D or on the menu if from the menu
(11) When you finish and want to terminate the program then click
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CHAPTER SEVEN
7.1 RECOMMENDATION
The researcher has successfully carried out the necessary study on this
(1) All farm managers should endeavour to adopt and use a computerized
(2) It has the capability to eliminate all the inherent problem of the old
(5) It is also suggested that this very project topic should be given to
many other students who wish to work on this topic so that difference
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(6) As well any project topic which are not properly completed, should
7.2 CONCLUSION
(manual), the new system is developed to put a stop to all the shortcomings.
performs a specific task in the program. A selected option from the main menu
It is strongly believed that this new system is by far better than the old
system since it has the capabilities to wipe off all the shortcomings of the old.
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REFERENCE
Organization
Garoyan, L., and others (1971); Phannia and Scheduling Post- Unification
Western Farmers.
Jorge Alvarez and Peter Nuthall (2000); Factors Affecting farmer adoption and
for
Tertiary Institutions
Alvarez, J. and Nuthall, P. (2001h) Florida, dkry farmer’s opinions about using
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