Cloud based virtual agriculture marketing and information system (C-VAMIS)

Abstract

Today's agricultural marketing has to undergo a series of exchanges or transfers from one person to another before it reaches the consumer. The challenges of the traditional agriculture are addressed significantly by using information and communication technologies (ICT) that play an important role in uplifting the livelihoods of the rural poor. Our main objective of the proposed system is to provide an environment for the farmers that would facilitate their cultivation to deliver the Agricultural Products to the marketing place in time and enriches the farmers with up to date farming technology by coordinating all transactions in a Cloud based E-commerce Environment. The usage of Cloud platform will reduce the cost of maintenance in isolated environments and with the application of big data helps the activity of data analytics fast, which is utilized in cost effective manner and extract needed forecasting from very large volumes of data.