Record-keeping is one of the most fundamental practices in good farm management as it shows a systemic managerial and analytic data essential for a successful farm operation. Despite such obvious benefits in record-keeping, however, todays farmers do ...
Record-keeping is one of the most fundamental practices in good farm management as it shows a systemic managerial and analytic data essential for a successful farm operation. Despite such obvious benefits in record-keeping, however, todays farmers do not take advantage of this practice for various reasons. Currently the government does provide farmers with a few samples of record-keeping books through agricultural development and technology center of cities and counties. However, these samples are too difficult for farmers to understand and utilize, or they are not practical enough to reflect the day-to-day reality of their individual farm operation. To make the matter worse, not much research has been done to resolve this incompatibility. Therefore, it is urgent for both the government and the farmers to come up with a better method or book of record-keeping that will show the farmers where their operation has been in the past, where it is now, and where it is heading in the future. This study will survey and analyze the current status of record-keeping practice among farmers and then it will suggest improvements in farm record-keeping. In particular, it will collect and analyze data from individual farmers about how they maintain their own farming records - to ultimately develop a model of an ideal farm record-keeping book, easy to use and understand and at the same time practical in their everyday use. Finally, this study will also suggest how to supply this revised record-keeping book to farmers.