Host: NPO: Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology
Recently Farmer's market has obtained considerable attention from consumers in suburbs because of its high quality products remarkably in freshness, food security and reasonable price. To ship products to the market, each farmer has to make management decisions on each package of products, e.g. price, amount, etc. However he tends to have less experience, information and time to make the rational decisions as he have to work at his farming field. We have made collaborative partnership with a farmer's market established in Iwate Prefecture and propose a management information support system for farmer's market business. In this paper, we present management problems in farmer's market business, and a proposed information system to solve some parts of them. For future application, we have analyzed some sales data of the market and show some perspectives to enhance business of the farmer's market.
