dc.contributor.author | Omwoyo, Jairo M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-12T09:20:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Master of Science in Information Systems | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/13502 | |
dc.description.abstract | Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA) is a management agency for small scale
farmers. It is responsible of the management of smallholder tea through provision of
extension services, production inputs, green leaf collection, processing and
marketing of processed tea on behalf of the smallholders. KTDA Ltd. currently
manages 53 tea factories in the smallholder sub-sector serving over 400,000
growers.
It has been observed in many years that farmers complain of poor service especially
in communication and information flow between farmers and factory management
who are representatives of KTDA.
The purpose of this study is to design ICT based communication architecture for tea
delivery and processing of Payments using cellular technology.
The methodology of the study focuses on analyzing the system delivery of the KTDA
and the impacts of the services on tea production. The method used to gather
secondary and primary data was through document review, interviews, observation
and questionnaires
The main finding of the study is that tea collection records are manually entered in
farmers' cards and on tea buying clerk record book. There is no proper coordination
of transport management especially during tea collection that leads to uncollected tea
at tea buying centres.
The key contribution of the study was to design a framework to solve farmers' issues
relating to the communication breakdown in the delivery and processing of tea
products. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.subject | Information framework | en |
dc.subject | Small scale tea farmers | en |
dc.subject | Cellular technology | en |
dc.subject | ICTs | en |
dc.subject | Tea industry | en |
dc.subject | Western region of Kenya | en |
dc.title | Information framework for small scale tea farmers using cellular technology. A case study of ICTs in the tea industry in Western region of Kenya | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
local.publisher | School of Computing and Informatics | en |