DocumentCode
3591369
Title
Poultry contractual farming decision support system
Author
Nyathi, Thambo ; Dube, Sebastien ; Sibanda, Khulekani ; Mutunhu, Belinda
Author_Institution
Nat. Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
fYear
2013
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
8
Abstract
Zimbabwe has an agro based economy and as such the majority of the population make a living from Agriculture. Small scale poultry urban farmers find it difficult to compete against large scale poultry producers, as such that they resort to contract farming on behalf of the large scale farmers. Large scale producers find it difficult to locate the small scale farmers to assess their resources for use. This paper presents a decision support system which is used to match the small scale farmer to the large scale producers.
Keywords
agriculture; contracts; decision support systems; Zimbabwe; agriculture; agro based economy; decision support system; poultry contractual farming; Agriculture; Companies; Contracts; Databases; Decision making; Decision support systems; Production; agriculture; contract farming; decision support; poultry;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition (IST-Africa), 2013
Print_ISBN
978-1-905824-38-0
Type
conf
Filename
6701759
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