Farmer Connect”- A Step Towards Enabling Machine Learning based Agriculture 4.0 Efficiently

This research work demonstrates the use cases of “Farmer Connect”- A Progressive Hybrid Application meant to ease out many primary low-level concerning issues in agriculture like a proper price margin for farmers, expanding the reach of traditional import-exports (from a region base system to a nation-wide system), reducing post-harvest crop wastage, connecting the buyer and the seller directly by eliminating the middlemen, forecasting prices of agriculture commodity accurately using Machine Learning, etc. This all small steps eventually helps in increasing the per capita income, brining changes in the agriculture sector and finally creating a roadmap to efficiently enable Agriculture 4.0. Currently, the networking is used on a heavy basis, whether it is LinkedIn for the tech guys or Social Media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tinder for dating etc. through which the people are connected on a global scale, hence making new contacts which eventually directly affects in our business or other personal gains. But there's no such platform when it comes to the case of farmers or the Food Industries!! Then why not build a robust system which can connect the Farmer, the Dealer, Retailer and even large corporations together on a national or a global scale? This allows the farmer to find the right buyer at a competitive price across the nation and at the same time the dealer can buy good quality products through a single platform! Even the large corporations can get in touch with the farmers and buy products directly through them hence limiting the intermediaries which eventually is a win-win situation for both the farmer and the corporation. Combining all of this, this research work has developed a progressive hybrid application, which contains information about various farmers, dealers, retailers, corporations, transport service providers, cold storage facilities in lieu to connect all of them together. This directly results into situation where farmer no longer need to store their crops in cold storage or any other locations (or minimal use) as they can get buyers from across the nation. Hence, even reducing the major food wastage in logistics and cold chain section.