Online portal for farmers to upload their sell and a dynamic ecommerce webapp where buyers can select what they want from the portal.

• Description
• Dependencies
• Installation
  • Prerequisites
  • Instructions
• Usage
• License

• An online portal for farmers to upload their sell and a dynamic ecommerce webapp where buyers can select what they want from the portal.
• A dynamic ecommerce webapp for the buyers, with product filtering and shopping cart functionalities.
• For farmers who are not well acquainted with technology, there is a SMS and whatsapp bot where farmers have to register/login and then they can put their crop details on the whatsapp chat or SMS messages, which will be uploaded to the site where buyers can view.
• The farmers can connect with the buyers and vice versa using this portal.
• All the data is stored in the database, this data will be used to fuel a data analytics dashboard, where ML and data visualization techniques are used to plot various charts, predict crop prices in the future, forecast trend and various other metrics.
• This blog is used as an API to answer our chatbot questions as well as online available agricultural sector APIs related to India with the bot.
• The seller and buyer can negotiate and select the way of exchange of goods, either through a courier client or if the seller wants to send a truck to collect the goods. Dynamic selection is implemented based on location on the webapp.

• npm
• Express.js
• MongoDB
• React.js

Install Node.js and npm using the link above. Follow instructions on their respecive websites. Npm is included with Node.js. Setup MongoDB locally or on MongoDB Atlas and get the connection string. This connection string has to be pasted here for mongoose to connect to the database.

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/amurto/farmer-portal.git

Install all the dependencies on backend server

cd web_app/backend 
npm install

Install all the dependencies on farmer client

cd web_app/farmer
npm install

Install all the dependencies on buyer client

cd web_app/buyer
npm install

Run the admin server on port 5000

cd web_app/backend
npm start

Run the farmer client

cd web_app/farmer
npm start

Open a web browser and go to

http://localhost:3000

Run the buyer client

cd web_app/buyer
npm start

Open a web browser and go to

http://localhost:3001

MIT License Link