Development of an Android Application for Smart Farming in Crop Management

Abstract

Agriculture technologies have shown potential to improve agriculture management. This awareness has attracted researchers to develop technologies for farmers to ease their daily routine and also to reduce cost of labor and increase the yield production. Smartphone is one of the gadgets that can be useful in agriculture because of its useful functions, portability and affordable. It helps users to find locations, access information and capture images and sound. Smartphone functions can be combined to build versatile mobile agriculture applications. These helps to deliver information about crops and management needs. This paper develops an Android application for smart farming in crop management known as Padi2U. Padi2U is a mobile application developed to help farmers in their paddy field management. The application is developed using Master App Builder, a software that is used to create mobile applications. This application contains information about PadiU Putra paddy variety, agriculture agency, sites information, planting schedule, drone images, paddy disease, pest, weed, weather forecast, yield information and farmer report. All information is described in the native language of the farmers that is the Malay language. Final results of this project is the mobile application which will is useful to manage crops and improve the management. The same method can be applied to different crops in the future.