The Development of a Mobile Application Using Google Maps and GPS for Farm Enumeration

Providing adequate and robust data about persistence farmers for planning and policy execution has always been a problem in Nigeria. Applying paperbased system with trained enumerators to collect this data have proved ineffective over the years. There are efforts on automation of the enumeration, however, a mobile application that is based on Global Positioning System (GPS) and Google Maps for mapping the farm coordinates in addition to the automated enumeration process that is to capture information about farmers and their cultivated crops is the focus of this research The research project therefore is centered on developing mobile application for the enumeration of persistence farmers in designated farm centers. Our proposed system works on both Android and IOS platforms to capture the necessary information about farmers. The app captures farmer details which include; the biodata and other identity documents. The most defining part is the farm mapping; this system links real farmers with their farmlands using Global positioning system (GPS) for an accurate measurement of farm size in m2 and acres; it also gives the exact location of your farm on Google maps. The system offers web services to manage the enumerated famers and to perform other related operations. The accurate enumeration of farmers is the first step in solving the incessant security challenges bedeviling persistence agriculture in Nigeria and bringing down the price of the entire value chain of staple food.