FarmManager: An Android Application for the Management of Small Farms

Abstract Smart phone technology creates new opportunities for farm management applications in small farms. Farmers working on small farms are now able with a low cost smart phone and the specialized software (in our case FarmManager) to obtain facilities that couldn’t have on their hands before. The use of the FarmManager software in a smart phone can overleap the high difficulties of farm management requirements which were stand as obstacle for many years so far. Tasks such as field definition, task operations, lists and reports and all farming use data can be submitted and carried on together in a smart phone at any farm working condition. In this paper we present the FarmManager which is an Android smart phone application and how it creates the management base for recording and browsing of ground fields, field relations (occupied or rented land), cultivation and its tasks, equipment, employees and European cultivations reports and all of them to be performed by the touch of smart phone screen button. The use of software is currently freely available and there are more than one thousand farmers using it in Greece.