The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health (CTLGH) have launched a real-time livestock monitoring application that aims to improve livestock productivity and support smallholder farmers.
The app, developed under the African Asian Dairy Genetics Gains Project (AADGG) offers real-time capabilities for monitoring livestock health, feed management and collecting data on artificial insemination-features that were previously unavailable with the commonly used Open Data Kit (ODK) system.
One of the key innovations of the new app is its ability to search and access historical data on individual cows.
It replaces the simpler ODK system, which was typically accessed through a tablet or laptop but was not easily accessible to farmers and made retrieving collected data difficult.
