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Harnessing the Potentials of Mobile Phone for Adoption and Promotion of Organic Farming Practices in Nigeria

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The goal of organic agriculture is to show the interrelationship between farm biota, its production, and the overall environment. In cooperation with various Organic Farming unions, a system called the organic farming mobile agricultural extension services (OrgFarMob) was developed to provide farmers with instant information to problems with organic crop cultivation. Hence, this project provides organic farmers with crop lifecycle support system, leading to effective management and sustainable economic development in organic agriculture. The system powered by Azure cloud platform, was developed using Model-View-Architecture and programmed with AngularJS and Ionic. The design followed the computer research framework with incorporate users’ requirement elucidation and validation. The system was designed and evaluated using data obtained through the collection of materials from professionals in the field of organic agriculture. The results showed that the system can be used in real-time and foster organic agriculture cultivation.

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The authors acknowledge the release of organic practices documents received from OAPTIN (Organic Agricultural Practitioner in Tertiary Institution in Nigeria). We appreciate the reviewers for their insightful feedback.

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  1. Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria

    Adebayo Abayomi-Alli, O. Oluwayomi Olabanjo, Oluwasefunmi T. Arogundade & Tope Elizabeth Abioye

  2. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Modupe O. Odusami

  3. Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

    A. Kayode Adesemowo

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Adesemowo, A.K., Abayomi-Alli, A., Olabanjo, O.O., Odusami, M.O., Arogundade, O.T., Abioye, T.E. (2020). Harnessing the Potentials of Mobile Phone for Adoption and Promotion of Organic Farming Practices in Nigeria. In: Sharma, S.K., Dwivedi, Y.K., Metri, B., Rana, N.P. (eds) Re-imagining Diffusion and Adoption of Information Technology and Systems: A Continuing Conversation. TDIT 2020. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 618. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64861-9_16

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