Peer-to-peer Electronic Buy and Sell Platform for Agricultural Products

Abstract

Agriculture plays a vital role in people’s lives. It provides adequate food supplies for mankind. In the distribution aspects, traditionally, farmers rely on intermediaries to sell their produce, resulting in diminished earnings and a limited market. While the problems in supply chain are vast and require diverse solutions, some companies focus in offering solutions in the distribution problems and create channels for farm produce without the need for intermediaries as well as its marketing. In this research, the development of an online marketplace that serves as an ecosystem for both farmers and their respective costumers to achieve meaningful and efficient trades, is presented. A business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce platform for agriculture is developed and tested. CSS and HTML for the front-end development are used while for the back-end development, the Django framework based on python language was chosen. Based on the findings, Django was shown to be an effective web framework for the e-commerce platform. Thus, they were able to make the different pages needed for the e-commerce platform that is user friendly which provides sufficient details for the users.