CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The magical impact of computer has made enormous contribution to all aspects of the society, people can now do things easily unlike in the past. Computers have lessen human effort in their day to day activities, by reducing both human labour and time in solving their problems which are both numerous / unlimited. The introduction of the magical machine has led to the further growth of agricultural products which is of great importance to human as it provides a means of continuous existence and livelihood to man. The technological know-how and scientific research reveals that a lot of work can be carried out by the computer in agriculture and help in the growth (Tadelle et al., 2000). It therefore deems imperative that computers should also be employed and utilized in poultry farm, being an area of agriculture, is inevitably essential and of great importance to man.
Poultry produce is being consumed on a daily basis in every part of the world as they are been used both domestically and industrially (Oladeebo and Ambe-Lamidi 2007). The traditional way or method of managing poultry farms has brought about gross mismanagement of farms. This research centres how computer system can be useful in a large scale poultry farm, keeping of general stock of the birds, the health status and finally the financial accountability of the farm. The importance of Poultry Farm Inventory Management System that can effectively and efficiently keep records of day to day activities of the poultry farm, such as; taking records of the total number of birds, total number of bird’s produce (chicks, eggs, waste), feed consumed, general income and expenditure of the farm. This is to avoid the ineffective and risky manual records keeping method or system, which is unreliable, since the document used in the record keeping are prone to risks, such