AGRICULTURAL GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE: AN ANDROID APPLICATION FOR THE FARMERS

Amrutanshu Panigrahi, MdMohtabAlam

Abstract: Since the introduction of Android in 2005, use of smart phones has been increased for past few years as it becomes the inevitable communication tool along with some more features for fun and entertainment. Some attributes like open platform, crosscompatibility and mesh up capability makes android operating system more elegant. In this paper our contribution is to develop a graphical based android application Agricultural Graphical User Interface (AGUI) for the agriculture, which can be easily used by anyone. Before cultivating the farmer needs to know some local characteristics about the crop like what amount of rain the crop actually needed, which type of soil is good for cultivating and also about the fertilizer needed by the crop. This application provides this basic information like environmental conditions, fertilizer information and also about the diseases and its corresponding remedy to the respective crops in graphical mode. The users need not to read anything for the use of this application.

Keywords: Android, Cross-compatibility, Mesh up capability, AGUI

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0507036