Heifer International Nepal is an international NGO, operating
in Nepal with a mission to thrive the farmers and end poverty
while caring for the earth by providing livestock-especially
goat, dairy cattle, water buffalo and backyard poultry,
education and other resources by providing livestock,
education and other resources to help the poor families become
self-reliant.
With modern training and access to the markets, Heifer Nepal
is helping farmers to raise quality livestock by improving
nutrition and increasing their incomes.
The Problems
HEIFER Nepal wanted to enhance and expand its existing system
by adding new features such as recording the goat medical
information digitally, making a mobile based application for
the farmers to record and put all the data on the blockchain
network.
As there wasn’t an app for farmers to record the information
of their goats, they wanted a farmer-friendly app that would
allow farmers to independently track data related to goats and
their health. Similarly, CAVE used to keep all goat
vaccination records on paper in traditional ledgers, which
made it impossible to keep track of all the related
information.
The Solutions
HEIFER Nepal was able to enhance their system by collaborating with Rumsan Associates, allowing farmers and other users to track and monitor their goats' health. They replaced their existing goat tracking system with a new one that includes more features and blockchain technology.
LSCMS ( Livestock Content Management System) mobile app is
used by farmers to record the goats basic data and weight
information whereas CAVE can record data related to
vaccination of goats whereas the web-application is used by
cooperative users where they can record different data, inputs
related to goat life cycle such as goats basic (DOB, gender,
breed, etc.), health information (anthelmintic, antibiotic and
vaccinations) and their selling information(selling date and
weight of goat), hand exchange from farmers, cooperatives and
distributors.
The system visualizes all of the activities and data related
to the number of goats, their breeding, sales, death, sales
etc. in pie charts, graph charts representation in the
dashboard page to assist farmers and other users to develop
and analyze the powerful insights quickly and effectively.
Rumsan Associates developed the web-based mobile responsive application which includes:
- Dashboard for admins to view multiple different reports based on region generated by the system and forecast what is on demand in the market.
- View list of goats based on region or all which are recorded in the database system.
- Manages users of the application : farmers, CAVE, Cooperative user and Admin.
- Add and view all the CAVE technicians to provide health information on the goats.
- View and add new distributors or retailers on their system which are operating in their supply chain.
- Legacy system integration
- Use of Blockchain technology in the supply chain and health history of goats.
- Data migration and export Report in MS-Excel
Technology
Database : MongoDB
UI : CSS/Javascript with material UI framework
Programming Language : JavaScript, React Native (Mobile Application)
Server : NodeJS
Blockchain Network : EVM based private blockchain
UI : CSS/Javascript with Bootstrap