Sesame Price Prediction Using Artificial Neural Network

Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Computer Science - Miscellaneous, University of Gondar (Atse Tewodros Cumpas), course: Information technology, language: English, abstract: Agricultural price predictions are an integral component of trade and policy analysis. As the prices of agricultural commodities directly influence the real income of farmers and it also affects the national foreign currency generate. Sesame is highly produced in some tropical and subtropical rain forest Ethiopia region. The thesis is to build a model that can predict market prices of sesame commodity. Based on the complexity of sesame price prediction; the predicting models used for crop are linear regression, support vector machine and neural network models to predict a future price. A data have been taken from the ECX website (www.ecx.com.et) in the interval of January 2013 to March 2019. The total numbers of records selected to the experiments are 5,327 daily prices are used for proposed models. The experimental result had evaluated by RMSE, MSE and CC metrics. We follow six phase CRISP-DM process model for sesame price prediction. The process phase are, business understanding, data understanding, data preparation, modeling, evaluating and deployment.