spp_farmer_registry_base

OpenSPP Farmer Registry Base

OpenSPP Farmer Registry Base

Overview

The spp_farmer_registry_base module serves as the foundation for managing farmer registries within the OpenSPP system. It builds upon several core OpenSPP modules to provide functionalities specific to farmer registration and farm data management.

Purpose

This module aims to:

• Extend the generic registry features to capture data relevant to farmers and their agricultural practices.
• Model the relationships between farmers, farms, land parcels, and agricultural activities.
• Integrate with GIS capabilities to visualize farm locations and land boundaries.

Module Dependencies and Integration

1. g2p_registry_membership: Used to manage memberships between individual registrants and groups.
2. spp_base_gis: Provides the foundation for visualizing and interacting with geospatial data.
3. spp_land_record: Enables managing and visualizing land records, linking them to farms and registrants.
4. g2p_registry_base: Provides the basic structure for managing registrant data, relationships, and identification.
5. g2p_registry_group: Extends the base registry to handle groups of registrants, such as farmer cooperatives.
6. g2p_registry_individual: Extends the base registry with functionalities for managing individual registrant data.

Functionality and Integration Details

Farmer Information

• Extends the res.partner model (from g2p_registry_base) to include farmer-specific details like years of experience, formal agricultural training, household size, etc.
• Introduces a temporary model spp.farmer to store farmer-specific information that can be later transferred to the main res.partner model, ensuring data consistency.
• Integrates with g2p_registry_individual to leverage existing features for managing individual registrant profiles.

Farm Management

• Introduces the Farm model (inheriting from res.partner) to represent individual farms.
• Links farms to land records using the spp.land.record model, enabling the tracking of land parcels associated with each farm.
• Allows recording details about farm types, sizes, legal status, and other relevant information.

Agricultural Activities

• Introduces the spp.farm.activity model to record information about agricultural activities undertaken on each farm.
• Captures data on crop cultivation, livestock rearing, and aquaculture practices.
• Links activities to specific land parcels using the spp.land.record model, providing a granular view of land use within a farm.

Farm Assets and Inputs

• Introduces models for managing farm assets (spp.farm.asset) and inputs like fertilizers (spp.fertilizer), chemicals (spp.farm.chemical), and feed items (spp.feed.items).
• Allows associating these assets and inputs with specific farms and, optionally, to specific land parcels within a farm.

GIS Integration

• Leverages the spp_base_gis module to enable visualization of farm locations and land boundaries on a map.
• Provides a dedicated GIS view for res.partner to display farms and their associated land parcels.
• Utilizes GeoJSON representations of land records from spp_land_record to display farm boundaries as data layers on the map.

Additional Features

• Extension Services: Records details about extension services provided to farmers, linked to specific farms and optionally to specific land parcels.
• Species Information: Includes a dedicated model (spp.farm.species) for managing information about crop, livestock, and aquaculture species relevant to the registry.

Conclusion

The spp_farmer_registry_base module, through its integration with various other OpenSPP modules, provides a comprehensive system for creating and managing detailed farmer registries. It not only facilitates the collection of essential farmer and farm data but also enables spatial analysis and visualization, making it a powerful tool for agricultural development programs and initiatives.

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Credits

Authors

• OpenSPP.org

Maintainers

Current maintainers:

This module is part of the OpenSPP/openspp-modules project on GitHub.

You are welcome to contribute.