Web-based System for Agricultural Commodity Sales

Abstract

Several new applications to support farmers' markets are developed using a model of a small farmers' market which opened in August 2001. Basic data of producers and their products were first accumulated on a web server-side database (Web-DB), into which another system transmits current sales data from market cash register. Some applications which process Web-DB are then developed to supply necessary information to retailers, producers and customers through the internet. The application to record the attendance of producers at the markets is described. Some results from the application of this system are also discussed.