E-Agriculture for Direct Marketing of Food Crops Using Chatbots
Usha Kiruthika, S. Kanaga Suba Raja, V. Balaji, Chandrasekharan Raman
Abstract
The main objective of this system is to warrant fair price to the agricultural community by developing chatbots between farmers and consumers. We aim to make this chatbot as an interactive system so that farmers can use it to sell their produce directly to consumers who may need it. This is an advantage for both sellers (farmers) and consumers to sell and buy the farm products that are required without the participation of middlemen at a reasonable and profitable price. The consumer is provided access to the chatbot in any social network (Eg: facebook messenger) for a farmer who is ready to cultivate a particular crop at a price. With the help of an intelligent system, the consumer hires the farmer and his land and supplies him with all the inputs for water, seeds, etc. The farmer farms and delivers the organic and fresh crop to the customer and gets his pay for this job. In this way, all the available farm products can be easily accessed by consumers. Hence it provides direct marketing and also ensures the farmers with a good pay and least investment.