Smart Agriculture Waste Management and Value Creation Platform

Abstract

This paper proposes a smart digital platform for agricultural waste management and value creation to support sustainable and circular farming practices. The farmers have to put in extra effort just to manage waste and data, which leads to diminished farm productivity. Farmers input their crop waste information through the system and receive recommended solutions (such as composting, biogas production, or livestock feed). We design the overall system consisting of three panels, namely farmer panel, buyer panel, and administrator panel. Farmers will have tools to list agricultural waste, engage in geo specific community discussions around crop diseases and farming practices, access localized knowledge sharing. Farmers can post their waste, allowing buyers to browse and haggle over prices, which should make the market more open and fair. The platform is designed to be accessible to everyone, with support for multiple languages, voice commands, and text-to-speech options. It also handles user verification, keeps tabs on activity, moderates content, and provides other administrative tools. The goal of this platform is to cut down on agricultural waste, boost farmers\' earnings, and encourage everyone to get involved in sustainable farming practices.

Introduction

The text discusses the problem of agricultural waste mismanagement, which harms the environment and wastes valuable resources that could be reused as compost, animal feed, or biogas. A major challenge is the lack of integrated digital systems to help farmers—especially small and medium-scale ones—access markets and share knowledge.

To address this, a smart web-based platform is proposed. It uses data-driven technology to help farmers manage and monetize agricultural waste. The system includes multiple user roles (farmers, buyers, and administrators) and features such as waste listing, a digital marketplace, price negotiation, community discussions, and administrative monitoring. Farmers input waste details, and the system provides recommendations for effective waste utilization.

The platform integrates modern web technologies, secure authentication, and scalable services to create a transparent marketplace and support collaboration. It promotes sustainability by improving waste management, increasing farmers’ income, and supporting a circular economy.

The literature review highlights past research on waste reuse, composting, and biotechnology, as well as the growing role of smart technologies in agriculture. However, it identifies a gap in integrated platforms that combine waste management, market access, and collaboration.

The proposed system fills this gap through modules for authentication, user registration, waste recommendations, marketplace operations, negotiation, community interaction, logistics, and administration. Its layered architecture ensures scalability and efficient data handling.

Overall, the methodology explains how users interact with the system—from registration and waste input to recommendations, trading, payment, and delivery—creating a complete digital ecosystem for sustainable agricultural waste management.

Conclusion

This research presented a smart digital platform for agricultural waste management and value creation aimed at supporting sustainable and circular farming practices. By enabling waste listing, structured utilization recommendations, community-based knowledge sharing, and direct price negotiation, the platform addresses both environmental and economic challenges faced by farmers. Functional evaluation confirmed reliable system performance, low response latency, and effective role-based interactions, demonstrating the platform’s suitability for real-world agricultural deployment without reliance on complex machine learning models.

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Copyright

Copyright © 2026 Pratik Dhokne, Prajyot Nimbokar, Deep Manmode, Pranay Dhanke, Samyak Kalaskar, Dr. Snehal Wasankar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.