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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