ABSTRACT

For years farmers have been reporting financial information on a variety of forms for
various reasons such as proof, records to aid decision making, and so on using the old filing
or hand system. Although the filing or hand system has low initial expense, and it is easy to
implement, but it is also time-consuming, have more chance to make mistakes, and requires
too much of time and effort.
The programming environment to be used in designing and programming this
PFMISs GUI Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 and the database management environment to be
used in designing the database is Microsoft Access. The database will hold the farm data such
as the inventory records, sales records, employee records, and Production and Financial
records. The GUI will read the users inputs with forms, and display reports on information
acquired from the database to the user.
The software is sectioned into Sales Management Section, Activity Management
Section, Inventory Management Section, Employee Management Section, and Reports
section such that: The Sales Management Section handles daily sales in the poultry farm. The
Activity Management Section deals with the activities in the poultry house such as; feeding,
treating, cleaning, and so on. The Inventory Management Section handles the management of
animals on the farm and their products, and crops available for sale or use in the store house.
The Employee Management Section handles the management of employees/workers on the
farm. The Reports Section handles reports generation in form of tables and allow search and
print reports.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION....................................................................................... 1
1.1

BACKGROUND ......................................................................................................... 1

1.2

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM .......................................................................... 2

1.3

AIM OF THE PROJECT ............................................................................................ 2

1.4

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT........................................................................................ 2

1.5

OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................. 2

1.6

METHODOLOGY ...................................................................................................... 3

CHAPTER TWO - LITERATURE REVIEW ........................................................................... 4

2.1

BACKGROUND ......................................................................................................... 4

2.2

ACTIVITIES OF A POULTRY FARM ..................................................................... 4

2.2.1

Brooding .............................................................................................................. 4

2.2.2

Feeding and watering ........................................................................................... 6

2.2.3

Managing layers and collecting eggs ................................................................... 7

2.2.4

Other activities of a poultry farm ......................................................................... 7

2.3

Existing Poultry Farm Management Information Systems ......................................... 8

2.3.1

Poultry Farm ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) & Management ................... 8

2.3.2

Layer Management System (LMS) .................................................................... 13

CHAPTER THREE - SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT ................................................................ 16

3.1

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................... 16

3.2

SYSTEM DESIGN ................................................................................................... 16

3.2.1

Input Phase ......................................................................................................... 17

3.2.2

Processing Phase ................................................................................................ 17

3.2.2

Output Phase ...................................................................................................... 17

3.2.3

Architecture of the System................................................................................. 17

3.3

DESIGNING TOOLS ............................................................................................... 29

3.3.1

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4.................................................................................. 29

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3.3.2

Microsoft Access ............................................................................................... 29

CHAPTER FOUR - SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION ............................................................ 32

4.1

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................... 32

4.1.1

System Testing ................................................................................................... 32

4.1.2

Maintenance ....................................................................................................... 32

4.1.3

Documentation ................................................................................................... 32

4.2

Interface Design ........................................................................................................ 34

CHAPTER FIVE - CONCLUSION, SUMMARY, AND RECOMMENDATION................ 47

5.1

CONCLUSION ......................................................................................................... 47

5.2

SUMMARY .............................................................................................................. 47

5.3

RECOMMENDATION ............................................................................................ 47

REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................ 48

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LIST OF TABLES
Table 3.1 Description of the sales table...................................................................................29
Table 3.2 Description of the Inventory table............................................................................33
Table 3.3 Description of the transact table...............................................................................37
Table 3.4 Description of the Emp table....................................................................................38

TABLE OF SYMBOLS AND ACRONYMS

Acronyms and Symbols

Description

DBMS

Database Management System

PFMIS

Poultry Farm Management Information System

GUI

Graphical User Interface

IMS

Information Management System

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning

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LIST OF FIGURES
Fig. 2.1 Gauging temperature by your chicks behaviour...................................................... 8
Fig. 2.2 ProducePak Poultry Farm ERP Solution screenshot................................................15
Fig. 2.3 Layer Management System screenshot.....................................................................18
Fig. 3.1 Representation of the PFMIS.....................................................................................24
Fig. 3.2 Representation of the sales section.............................................................................25
Fig. 3.3 Representation of the Inventory section...................................................................27
Fig. 3.4 Representation of the on-Farm section......................................................................29
Fig. 3.5 Representation of the Employee section....................................................................31
Fig. 3.6 Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 screenshot........................................................................34
Fig. 3.7 Microsoft Access user interface..................................................................................35
Fig. 4.1 Login page..................................................................................................................39
Fig. 4.2 Home page..................................................................................................................40
Fig. 4.3 View egg sales page....................................................................................................41
Fig. 4.4 Add new sales page.....................................................................................................42
Fig. 4.5 View inventory page...................................................................................................43
Fig. 4.6 Add new inventory Page.............................................................................................44
Fig. 4.7 View employee records page......................................................................................45
Fig. 4.8 Add employee page.....................................................................................................46
Fig. 4.9 Onfarm feed page.......................................................................................................47
Fig. 4.10 Onfarm egg collection page.....................................................................................48
Fig. 4.11 Onfarm occurrence page..........................................................................................49
Fig. 4.12 Onfarm other activities page....................................................................................50

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