Rice Express: A Communication Platform for Rice Production Industry

Abstract

Rice production can consider as the main production area in the agriculture industry. Because of the poor communication among farmers, buyers and transporters Sri Lanka is a high-cost rice producer. Rice production cost can significantly reduce through the communication between relevant persons in right time. Thus Multi-Agent technology can be used to handle the communication productively. This paper presents a multi-agent solution for the agriculture industry, namely, Rice Express, which is capable of communicating between the persons in the rice production industry. Rice Express has been developed through the MaSMT framework. The system comprises three types of agents, namely, farmers, buyers and transporters. With the relevant agent communication among farmers, buyers, and transporters, the system should be capable of reducing transport cost significantly. The Rice Express has been successfully tested in the practical environment, and successful results were obtained.