Design and implementation of a web-based application for managing agricultural health products

Caring for the health of food crops and plants can help boost food production and eradicate hunger according to the second United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). The procurement of agricultural health products such as fertilizers, fungicides, pesticides, and herbicides are a major problem for an average Nigerian farmer. This results in low crop yield and negatively impacts on food production which eventually causes hunger in the land. Existing methods of procuring these health products have majorly been through offline platforms such as agricultural stores and other relevant stores. This has its disadvantages such as inaccessible roads to stores where such products can be obtained, varying prices, health products out of stock, ignorance in the application of such products. These barriers deter farmers from procuring these health products. In this paper, a survey was conducted on the needs and problems of farmers. The results of the survey informed the design and implementation of an agricultural health Informatics web application for health product management for food crops. The application was designed using unified modelling language class diagram and implemented using Python. SQLite3 serves as the backend database. The agricultural informatics solution will help farmers in Nigeria to easily procure health products for food crops and get the products delivered without stress and worry when fully deployed. This will boost food production, thus eradicating hunger; it will also help in exporting food crops to other countries.