An Information system for agricultural cooperative management in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia (a prototype system)

The objectives of this study were to (i) study on the contribution of cooperatives to rural people and the working system of the Kampong ThomProvincial Department of Agriculture on the promotion and encouragement to agri_coop in Kampong Thom province and (ii) to design and develop a management information system prototype to support the farmers and the relevant authorities to access and distribute information related to the agri_coop in province. The former data record was stored in the form of paper rarely distributed in to public yet inefficiency on data management, visibility, usability and publicity. The prospective conduct research is ten operation units in ten villages, four communes and four districts with about 100 respondents.
The system was developed on Microsofts 7 uses MySQL database management and SQL as tool database building with PHP application language program. The system is capable to storage, add and delete according to the privilege right and compute capabilities manufacturing, data collection of agri_coop in report, and amount of members, female member, share, share price, services and activities. The majority of agri_coop members are aware how to make collaboration and communication way with the relevant sectors in order to improve the standard of living and empowering the community development campaign.