UI/UX Design for a Database of Smallholder Oil Palm Plantations in Merangin Village, Kuok District, Kampar Regency

Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Riau, Indonesia

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Abstract

Palm oil is the main raw material for vegetable oil production throughout the word. Indonesia's oil palm plantations are extensive, covering approximately 16.8 million hectares in 2023, primarily in Sumatra and Kalimantan. For Indonesia, oil palm contributes significantly to the farmers' economy and generates foreign exchange from crude palm oil exports. However sustainable plantation management must be continuously pursued to ensuring productivity. Currently, there is a gap between the productivity and quality of oil palm fruit harvests from smallholder plantations compared to industrial plantations. The quality of oil palm fruit from smallholder plantations generally is lower than that of industrial plantations. This study proposes the designs of an application architecture and database for smallholder oil palm plantations using a User Interface and User Experience (UI-UX) approach, which allows the development of applications to collect oil palm farmer data directly, quickly, in detail, and up-to-date. This proposed design was tested to ensure the application's success in generating information such as identity, available land area, planted land area, number of oil palm trees, tree age (planting year), production level, and coordinates of their plantations.