Agro Market Day
Abstract
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Every district in Uganda has markets which open on different days selling a variety of
produce. Farmers bring their produce to these markets with the hope of getting buyers but
it is not always obvious that they get buyers so they have to wait the same day the following
week when that particular market opens. This results in small holder farmers earning little
from their produce because most of the time they end up being cheated by middlemen who
come from urban areas and buy produce from them at low prices which they later sell at
higher prices thereby gaining more which leaves the smallholder farmers with little or no
income for their hard work. We therefore came up with AgroMarketDay a mobile application
that enables farmers to sell agricultural produce, get information about agricultural markets,
market days, modern farming methods and tools in different districts in Uganda which will in
the end alleviate poverty in the farming community and the country at large since a large
percentage of the population depends on agriculture as their main source of income.
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