# A Precision Subsidy Management System for Strawberry Planting in ChangPing District of BeiJing

Zhang Chi, Chen Tian'en, Chen Liping

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Zhang Chi, Chen Tian'en, Chen Liping. A Precision Subsidy Management System for Strawberry Planting in ChangPing District of BeiJing. 4th Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA), Oct 2010, Nanchang, China. pp.103-109, 10.1007/978-3-642-18333-1_14.hal-01559566

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# A Precision Subsidy Management System for
Strawberry Planting in ChangPing distinct of Beijing

ZhangChi¹, Chen Tian'en¹, Chen Liping¹

¹ National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, Beijing
100097
zhangc@nercita.org.cn

**Abstract.** The misuse of pesticide and fertilizer take a great pollution to the agricultural environment, which seriously affects the quality and safety of agricultural products. The government put forward a series of policies of subsidy to lead the farmers to proper pesticide application and scientific farming. But the effect doesn't turn out as it wished to be because of the backward implementation methods and Stat methods. This research provides a Precision Management method for effectively managing subsidies for agriculture. Based on Non-contact IC card, the authors developed a Precision Management System for agricultural related subsidies management. This system was applied in one center and eleven experiment stores in ChangPing district in Beijing and solved problems like poor instruction for planting, tardy in subsidies providing and inaccurate information of stat during the strawberry growing season. Through this system, farmers can get the subsidies and instruction at the moment they buy agricultural materials, government can obtain the accurate data, and then adjustment the policies in time to get the desired effect.

**Keywords:** IC card; subsidy of agricultural materials; precision management; agricultural products safety

## 1 Introduction

Agricultural pollution has been neglected for a long time due to the high environmental capacity, low level of industrialization, and low population density in rural areas in China. Excessive fertilization, sole-nutrient fertilization and overdose of nitrogenous fertilizer lead to problems like imbalance of soil nutrient, low utilization ratio of fertilization and agricultural environmental pollution. Shoddy fertilizers induce decline of agricultural product quality, even threaten people's life security [1]. According to State Environmental Protection Administration, agricultural pollution occupies as high as 1/3-1/2 of the total amount of nationwide pollution [2]. Thus, scientific farming and reduction of agricultural pollution is the key point to realize agricultural sustainable development strategy.

Local governments has taken many measures to solve this problem, such as grant subsidies to recommended agricultural implements in order to standardize agricultural
tools and set up agricultural technical advice station to provide information for scientific farming and rational maturing. These instrumentalities remarkably increase the quality of agricultural products and bring down the agricultural pollution, but there is deficiency. Most of the subsidies are released by the end of a year, that is, the allowances are mostly granted after the crop planting period. On the one hand, farmers can not get the subsidies in time; on the other hand, local governments can not get accurate information of requirement of agricultural means of production.
Aiming to solve this problem, this paper provides a precision management method based on non-contract IC card. Assembling government administrative department, agricultural implement agency and farmers together, the authors developed a precision management system based on non-contract IC card to ensure that all the subsidies could be granted in time and that feedbacks could be send back in time. This system was applied in one center and eleven agencies in strawberry planting areas in ChangPing district in Beijing and proved to be efficient.

# 2 System analysis and design

## 2.1 Requirement Analysis

Whether information about subsidies of agricultural materials and scientific farming can be conveyed to the farmers precisely will directly affect the agricultural environment and the quality and safety of agricultural products. Meanwhile, the subsidies arriving in time or not will affect farmers' enthusiasm for planting. Based on this, the primary goal of our system is to set up a platform among the government administrative department, agricultural sales departments and farmers in order to pass the information about subsidies of agricultural materials and scientific farming to farmers precisely. Also through this system, providing of subsidies will become more timely and efficient, as a result, farmers' enthusiasm of planting will be enhanced to a great extent.

Our government conducts the subsidies of agricultural materials aiming to ensure the quality of agricultural products and improve agricultural environment. So the subsidies of agricultural materials have to be managed precisely and provided in time so as to ensure the effective implementation of this beneficial policy. For this reason, another function of this system is to provide a tool using which the government can manage the subsidies of agricultural materials precisely. At the same time, by applying this system, related department can achieve a statistical analysis of the information about subsidies of agricultural materials so as to help the government make good policies, and to speed up our agricultural development in the end.

## 2.2 System structure

To meet the actual requirement, the system consists of six parts such as management subsystem, store subsystem, leader view subsystem, a centre database,
several store databases and a huge number of IC card. Due to the different network
condition in the agents, the whole system is designed in a telescopic C/S structure,
through the VPN(virtual private network), each subsystem can connects to each other
out of the network condition limited. All agencies submit the sale information to the
centre database at a fixed time, consequently, the reliability and stability of the system
can be ensured. The leader-view subsystem adopts a B/S structure; leaders can get the
real-time information of subsidies anywhere through the browser. Fig 1 is the
structure of Precision Management System for the subsidy of agricultural materials.

<figure><img src="image_2.png" /><figcaption>Fig.1 the structure of Precision Management System for the subsidy of agricultural materials</figcaption></figure>

## 2.3 The Major Business Process

According to the procedure of strawberry production in ChangPing distinct, the
management subsystem inputs the first batch of data based on the land distribution
data and the details of subsidy. Adopt the mechanism ‘one farmer one card’, each
farmer gets a IC card with his name, account, quota of subsidy, permit time and the
printed growing instructions. In accordance with the latest information of subsidy
download from the management subsystem, the payment for agricultural materials is
made up of two parts, the one is cash part, paid by farmers, the other is subsidy,
deducted from the IC card. Stores take a record of each transaction, and submit the
records to management subsystem in a fix time. The management subsystem achieves
a statistical analysis of the distribution process and using circumstances about
subsidies of agricultural materials through these records. Based on the results of the
statistics, government can adjust subsidy policy in time and then play a better role in
guiding. Fig 2 is the major business process of Precision Management System for the
subsidy of agricultural materials.
<figure><img src="image_3.png" /><figcaption>**Fig.2** the major business process of Precision Management System for the subsidy of agricultural materials</figcaption></figure>

## 2.4 The Key Technology

### 2.4.1 Real-time Performance of the system

The major problems to be solved in the system are how to distribute subsidy in time and accurate statistics the data of subsidy. IC card of non-contact type (M1) is used, the farmer's name, account, balance, subsidy freeze, distribute date, commencement date, check date, ending date, card status and growing instructions are stored in the sectors of IC card. When farmer buy the agricultural materials, store subsystem calculates the total price and the subsidy should be distributed, subsidy bill is deducted from IC card, the balance is paid in cash. Store subsystem save the details such as account, name, price, number, cash, subsidy, serial and assistant into store database with status "0" when each transaction is finished. Store subsystem checks the records periodically, while finding records with status "0", immediately submits these records to management subsystem and updates the status with "1". Though this, the subsidy can be distributed in time and data of subsidy can be accurate statistics.

### 2.4.2 System Security

The whole system is a distributed system. In the server aspect, adopts the dual module hot spare(DMHS), if one server is crash down, System can switches to another server automatically in two minutes, which guarantees the security of database. In the data interaction aspect, set up a virtual private network, each
subsystem has a multiple verification mechanism and all data is delivered unidirectional, which ensure the security of the data.

# 3. System Implementation

## 3.1 Management Subsystem

Considering the factors of development efficiency, interface effects and user demand, we used Visual C # as the development language, under the Visual Studio 2005 environment, combined with ESRI's ArcGIS Engine 9.3 SDK for system development. After comprehensive consideration of the data security, operating efficiency and system extension, chose SQL Server 2005 as the data base.

Management sub-system was comprised of three function modules including the IC card management module, information maintenance module and data query statistics module. It is precisely the information publish and integrate centre of the precision management system for the subsidy of agricultural material, which provides IC card and growing instructions for farmers, recommended agricultural materials and subsidy information for agencies, accurate statistical data of subsidies for the government departments. Fig 3 shows the card distribution interface of management sub-system.

<figure><img src="image_4.png" /><figcaption>Fig.3 card sending page of the management subsystem.</figcaption></figure>

## 3.2 Store Subsystem

As a bridge between the government and farmer, the store subsystem complete the whole transaction processes. The distribute store subsystem acquires the
information of the recommended agricultural materials and related subsidies
information from the management subsystem and then transmit to the farmer. Store
subsystem distributes subsidies to farmers as soon as they buy the agricultural
materials with agricultural subsidies IC card, and then saves the detailed information
for each transaction. Every store uploads the transaction data to the central database
periodically to summary, aiming to query and stat. Fig 4 is the sale page of store
subsystem.

<figure><img src="image_5.png" /><figcaption>Fig.4 sale page of store subsystem</figcaption></figure>

3.3 Leader View Subsystem

Leader view subsystem provides a rich query and statistical functions. User can query the grant general progress of agricultural subsidies with the conditions of area, kind and time, the detailed circumstances of agricultural subsidies granting and agricultural products using the conditions of town, month / quarter and agricultural materials' name. All results are compared in different dimensions and displayed in graphs and tables. Analyzing these results, the management department of government can know the farmers' demand and subsidies grant progress roundly. Fig 5 is the statistics page of the leader subsystem.
<figure><img src="image_6.png" /><figcaption>Fig.5 subsidy statistics by month page of the leader subsystem.</figcaption></figure>

## 4、The Application

Finishing the development work of the precision management system, it takes the agricultural materials management department of ChangPing district in Beijing as the center, set up eleven experiment agencies in the towns like Xingshou, Xiaotangshan, Baishan, Shahe, Machikou, Cuicun, Five thousands farmers are benefited for it. The system adopts the mechanism of 'one farmer one card' to realize unified management on agricultural materials' recommendation, purchase, sale and subsidies of the whole district, making a connection between sale and subsidy of the agricultural materials, realizing the accurately recording of sale information, the real-time summarizing of the subsidy data and the timely distribution of subsidy, integrating the resource of strawberry grow effectively, mobilizing the energies of farmers and Guaranteeing the quality of agricultural product at the same time, laying the foundations of the development of strawberry industry in ChangPing district.

## 5. Conclusion

To meet the needs of precision management of granting subsidies during strawberry planting, this paper designed and developed a precise managerial system of subsidies supervision. Employing modern communication technology, this system built an information alternation platform among government administrative department, agricultural implement agency and ordinary farmers. Based on non-contract IC card, this precise system of subsidies supervision could send the statistic
feedback in time; the farmers could promptly receive the subsidies and get guidance
of scientific planting from the government. As a management system controlling the
inception of agricultural material investigation, this project achieved the traceability
of agricultural material during strawberry planting; reduced pollution caused by
absurdness fertilizer application and consequently ensured the quality of agricultural
production.

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