A dairy farm records management system:

Abstract

This project led to creation of a computerized records management system for the dairy farms which solves problems of inaccuracy in records and lack of the very farm records. The system keeps records of all cattle on the farm and monitors their productivity. The records kept include; animal records, milk production and milk sales records. This research aimed at developing a dairy farm records management system to eliminate the manual way of record keeping The farm manager logs in into the system through providing his username and password thus enabling him to edit the employee details and also manage the milk distribution records. The milk maid also has access to the system through providing his username and password enabling him record milk collected that day from the various lactating cows. The sales officer also uses the system to record the sales details in a particular day. Rapid Application Development (RAD) approach was used in developing the system. The data models used were the context diagram, Data Flow Diagram, and Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) The system was developed using PHP for server-side scripting, HTML for designing data entry forms, other tools included CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and MySQL for database management system. The system was tested and validated to ensure that it efficiently and effectively meets the dairy farm records management system Conclusively, the developed system is an efficient and effective tool which dairy farmers can use for records management.