Improvement of Farmers Market Information System to Connect with Some Social Stakeholders

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Large portion of population in Tanzania are rural small scale farmers. The farmers don’t get enough profits due to lack of market information as a result they sell crops to middle men at exploited prices. Previously, we developed Web and mobile based Market Information System using Waterfall model which replies farmers’ requests for market prices of crops within short time using Short Message Service (SMS).In this paper we improve the system, to connect farmers with buyers through SMS. The system will be deployed in Tanzania to evaluate its effectiveness in helping farmers get better income.