Dr. Pashu
AI-enabled Health Monitoring of your Livestock & Farms
We provide a comprehensive, yet simple solution to Livestock Cooperatives & Farmers that can help monitor the health of their livestock and the KPIs of their farms.
Introduction
Poultry farmers are depending on their local knowledge to manage the farms. Our objective is to provide atechnological solution to the farmer in order to improve their productivity and profitability.
We provide a simple interface via an App so that farmers can monitor the health of their chicken and their farm (in terms of financial health). The target market is poultry farmers in India and across the world.
Problem
Monitoring Health of Chickens
Currently, for managing the chicken health, poultry farmers are dependent on expensive veterinarians or their previous experience.
Most farmers struggle to take good care of their chickens due to lack of good veterinarians in their city/town. The problem is even more severe in smaller towns and villages where finding good veterinarians in a timely manner remains a key problem.
Manual Monitoring of Profitability of Farms
Also, farmers manually manage all the details of revenue generated via sale of eggs and costs like Feed costs, chicken EMI, vaccination costs etc. Manual data keeping is prone to errors. Thus, It is difficult to calculate the overall profitability of the farm.
Lack of Early Warning Systems
Early warning system for any kind of Bird-flu is also missing. This leads to massive losses due to culling of birds in large numbers whenever such a disease outbreak happens.
No Marketplace for Poultry-related items
The farmers do not have a stable market to sell the eggs or to buy the feed. The input cost of the feed can increase dramatically leading to wiping out of all profits. Similarly, a dip in demand can lead to huge losses to the farmer.
Solution
We have designed and developed a mobile application which assists farmers to manage the health of not only their chicken, but also help in monitoring the financial health of their poultry farm.
Easy Monitoring of Health of Chickens using AI
This App helps in tracking the health of the chicken by using our unique AI-powered Health module. The farmer can easily select the various symptoms that a particular chicken is displaying. Also, he/she can upload the images of the chicken. Our AI engine will analyse all the symptoms and images and list down the possible diseases.
A disease outbreak can be tracked geographically and be used to virtually monitor the spread of the disease in an area. This can be used by the farmers to proactively take corrective action and save their farms. Not only that, it will also suggest the potential steps that the farmers can take to cure the disease or to reduce the impact of the disease. The AI also takes into consideration the vaccinations that have been already provided to the chicken.
Early Warning Systems to take Preventive Action before Time
We use the weather forecast data to provide an early-warning system to the farmers. Any inclement forecast conditions will be sent as alerts to the farmers who can adjust the farm conditions accordingly. Example, switching on of fans for a heat-wave or closing windows for a thunderstorm.
Automatic Monitoring of Health of Farms
Monitoring the financial status of the farm has been made very easy by entering all details on the app. It provides all the details of the financial health of the farm as well the health of the chickens in a simple easy to understand dashboard.
Marketplace for Poultry-related items
The app enables creation of a marketplace where the farmer can sell eggs or buy feed. Any farmer can list his/her egg or feed produce on the notice board. Buyers can browse the listing and purchase eggs or feed based on geographical proximity and price.
Integrated Payment Gateway
We plan to integrate payment gateway into the app so that the app can be used to make and receive payments. We can also partner with various banks who provide loans to the farmers and who can use this app to ensure that the loans are paid back timely and track the profitability to the farmers.
Comprehensive App for Other Animals
In future, we are planning to expand the app to cover other animals like Pigs, Goats, Fishes etc. The app can be extended to support ancillary units like cage manufacturers and transporters.
Summary & Conclusion
We have designed and developed a comprehensive mobile application which provides a one-stop-shop for all the key problems that a Poultry farmer faces today.
About Us
Kumar is a Technology & Growth Marketer with over eighteen years of work experience in B2B and B2C companies & Startups
He completed PGDM (MBA) from IIM Ahmedabad after graduating as an Electronics Engineer from SVNIT (erstwhile REC) Surat.
Kumar believes that Technology can provide a significant leverage to impact people’s lives positively. In his spare time, he likes doing Yoga and watching TV series.
Nikhil is an accomplished executive from IIT-Varanasi and MIT (USA) with 24+ years of experience in IT Software Industry
His interests lie in using Machine Learning and Automation
He is research-driven, with good people-skills and has an ability to build cohesive teams bound towards a common target. In his spare time, he likes being outdoors and watching movies.
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