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Solution & Team Overview

Solution Name:

End to end ethnoveterinary solution for dairy cattle

Short solution summary:

Mobile application with Auto-disease BOT helps livestock farmers to diagnosis disease as per the modern system of veterinary medicine and get instant herbal ethnoveterinary remedies. Farmer opt either approved home-made preparation or validated ready to use formulations. Immediate Veterinary service reduces indiscriminate usage of Antimicrobials in food producing animals.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team based?

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?

Dr Vijayakumar Ramalingam,

CEO & Co-Founder,

AniMeta Agritech Private Limited

Which Challenge Objective does your solution most closely address?

Implementation

What specific problem are you solving?

We are trying to solve the problem indiscriminate usage of antibiotics and other chemical drugs in food producing animals. Only 45% of the sick livestocks in India were treated by professional vets and rest are carried out by quacks or self medication without any valid prescription. Huge gap in timely farm gate veterinary service causes farmers to depend more on quacks or retail chemist for diagnosing the disease and treating the same.

Farmers also not interested in discarding the antibiotic treated animal's milk till the end of withdrawal period. This end up in huge antibiotic residues in the food chain.

There is no proper mechanism to monitor the antibiotic dispensation, poor lab testing infrastructure and free availability of antibiotics aggravate the situation.

Who does your solution serve, and what needs of theirs does it address?

8 crore d.airy farmers in India having a average herd size of 2 to 3 cattle units. More than 2.5 crore farmers are attached either with dairy cooperatives or private dairy companies. More than 60% of dairy companies in India is trying to hold the farmers with various veterinary extension activities.

The main problem faced by all dairy companies are huge antimicrobial residues in the milk. This affects in two ways 1. the quality of value added products like cheese, panner etc get affected 2. huge loss due to milk rejection.

Dairy companies started dispensing the BOT and ethnoveterinary solution to the dairy farmers associated with them. Not only the quality of milk improved but also helped dairy companies saved huge cost in procuring antibiotics. Farmer benefited by saving ₹1500/- per treatment and improved the health of the animal quickly.

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Growth: An initiative, venture, or organisation with an established product, service, or business/policy model rolled out in one or, ideally, several contexts or communities, which is poised for further growth