Development of Decision Supporting System for Large Scale Agricultural Land Plot of Rice Farmers in Upper Northern Region

Abstract

This study proposes the research conceptual and information system for developing decision supporting system for a large -scale agricultural land plot of rice farmers in the upper northern region. The data from the large scale agricultural land plot of rice farmers in the upper northern region were used to form database and information system to design the model that can effectively employ to improve the potential of research in this field. The displayed data include market price, agricultural products, total cost of rice production, harvesting cost, production factors, plantation technique, land utilization, etc.. The system can provide the information that supports decision making for cultivation, marketing, particularly for current rice plantation technology. The instruments for the system development include relational database program, web server for database management, and picture editing program. The system development is based on System Develop Life Cycle (SDLC) using Visual Basic programming language and MS SQL Server 2017 as a database management system. The satisfaction assessment was conducted through questionnaires completed by 13 experts in a large scale agricultural land plot for rice farming, 11 experts in computer system, and 3 general people interested in the large scale agricultural land plot for rice farming through black-box testing. The results revealed that all 27 system users reported high satisfaction indicating that the developed IT system is able to work efficiently and can be used in an authentic situation.