Developing of Central E-Market system for farmers, Office of Agricultural Research and Development Region 1, Chiang Mai Province

Abstract

The purposes of the research were to 1) develop of Central E-Market system for farmers, Office of Agricultural Research and Development Region 1, Chiang Mai Province, 2) evaluate the quality of the information system by an information system specialist and 3) Evaluate the users' technology acceptance towards the information system based on the TAM model. The system development was a web application based on the Waterfall Model. The web application was developed using XAMPP, consisting of Apache for web server simulations, PHP as language code programming and MySQL used as a database manager, HTML CSS and JavaScript for designing web application user interface. The research instrument is 1) to evaluate the quality of the information system by three information system specialists and 2) to users' technology acceptance towards the information system based on the TAM model for target groups; it consists of buyers and sellers totaling 30 people.

            The research result finds that 1) E-Marketplace of Office of Agricultural Research and Development Region 1, Chiang Mai Province divided into two systems contains a front-end system: buyers can view and buy products, back-end system: admin and sellers can manage data in system 2) the result of the quality of information system were rated at the highest level ( = 4.64, S.D. = 0.50) and 3) The result of users’ acceptance technology were rated at high level ( = 4.26, S.D. = 0.51).