Enhancing Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria Using a PPFApp Approach

Abstract

Nigeria is a nation that is naturally blessed with both natural and human resources. However, the country is challenged with high rate of unemployment; even one of her economic sectors that is viable, which can greatly assist the growth of the economy is not receiving an adequate attention. This sector (Agricultural sector) couple with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) could help reduce the problem of unemployment and low agricultural produce to a bearable minimum. This paper proposes an integration of ICT into Agriculture by developing a mobile application known as Poultry and Piggery Farm application (PPFA) on android platform for livestock disease management (Poultry and Piggery). Sqlite was used to create the database for different diseases, likely symptoms and their respective clinical treatment. Java Programming language was employed for the creation of the interactive interface. The application was developed with Android Studio on Linux Fedora box, the hardware used was 8gb RAM, and 1Terabyte hardware. The application was deployed and tested on android 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 jelly bean and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Keywords: Agriculture, ICT, PPFA, Nigeria