When IT meets Animal Husbandry
While agriculture is the backbone of India's rural economy, livestock rearing is also a vital contributor. Almost all rural households own livestock - even landless families will own one or two cows or buffaloes. For the poorest among these families, livestock is often their only sustained source of income. However, in general milk yields are extremely low a result of poor nutrition and genetic quality. IT has been used in abroad widely for the study and improvement of various aspects of livestock production, research and education.
In devloped countries IT is being successfully used for the sustainable livestock management, precision livestock farming, livestock disease control and diagnosis and treatment through IT aided instrumentation. IT has a great role in dissemination of livestock related information and ITKs. Now a days the mobile phone looks like tomorrow's most likely access device for information dissemination. The livestock related information such as vaccination alert can be delivered through mobile service provider before monsoon. Despite of all constraints of under Indian condition the IT is spreading with its own pace and in future the process will speed up. It seems that in near future there will be sound platform for communication and service delivery in rural area through the IT based devices and value added services.
The developments in Information Technology over the past few decades are tremendous and offer great potential in improving animal health through various measures like breed improvement through appropriate breeding programme, institutional credit support, improvement in livestock services like AI, vaccination, deworming etc. and making disease free zones, utilization of crop residue and fodder production, proper processing, storage and transportation of animal products, appropriate import and export policies of livestock products and besides these to address the information needs of various farming systems through broad based extension system, effective disease forecasting, rapid and accurate disease diagnosis, modern therapeutic measures etc.
The possibilities are endless therefore we bring forth a select few service providers who bring these possibilities to reality.
Do let us know what you think.
In devloped countries IT is being successfully used for the sustainable livestock management, precision livestock farming, livestock disease control and diagnosis and treatment through IT aided instrumentation. IT has a great role in dissemination of livestock related information and ITKs. Now a days the mobile phone looks like tomorrow's most likely access device for information dissemination. The livestock related information such as vaccination alert can be delivered through mobile service provider before monsoon. Despite of all constraints of under Indian condition the IT is spreading with its own pace and in future the process will speed up. It seems that in near future there will be sound platform for communication and service delivery in rural area through the IT based devices and value added services.
The developments in Information Technology over the past few decades are tremendous and offer great potential in improving animal health through various measures like breed improvement through appropriate breeding programme, institutional credit support, improvement in livestock services like AI, vaccination, deworming etc. and making disease free zones, utilization of crop residue and fodder production, proper processing, storage and transportation of animal products, appropriate import and export policies of livestock products and besides these to address the information needs of various farming systems through broad based extension system, effective disease forecasting, rapid and accurate disease diagnosis, modern therapeutic measures etc.
The possibilities are endless therefore we bring forth a select few service providers who bring these possibilities to reality.
Do let us know what you think.
