A Mobile Electronic Commerce Application for Agricultural Products in Nigeria

Abstract

Mobile electronic-commerce applications have become ubiquitous assets in all facets of life, including buying and selling. This has made it easy for many organizations to take advantage of the applications and leverage cost-saving features to place businesses on mobile applications. The study deals with the benefit to farmers getting agricultural products sold at the best price online and equally prevents teeming customers from buying agricultural products at outrageous prices in market places. A simple linear regression technique was used to analyze the data collected from seventy (70) respondents. The research findings indicate that about 79% of the total respondents agreed that consumers need an e-commerce app for selling agricultural products, and the graph signifies a low decrease in R2 value of 0.2113 (21%) with a slope of 3.08x (where y-value is the dependent variable and x is the independent variable). It was also revealed that 74% of the respondents agreed that the Android operating system offers more device variety and customization options for both farmers and consumers, and the graph shows decrease in R2 value of 0.2115 (21%) with a slope of 10.69x (where y-value is the dependent variable and x is the independent variable). The development of the platform follows a system development life cycle approach using Android Studio SDK, Flutter, and XML for the client side, and on the server side, PHP and MySQL were used as scripting languages and databases, respectively.