Research & Development

Farm Vaccination Management through Application: Potential for FOSHOLI

Treating farm animals with vaccines is crucial to produce immunity against diseases. According to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), average losses due to animal diseases are more than 20%. Animal vaccination thus provides manifold benefits including healthy and disease-free farm animal in a cost effective way. Animal vaccination also prevents spreading of infections to other animals and zoonotic diseases to humans. Proper information and tracking are crucial for farm vaccination where mobile apps can play a vital role. An app-aided vaccination system can help the farmers to plan, organize and track each animal’s vaccination process and can also calculate the associated cost and benefit. In an advanced stage, the app may enable the buyers/consumers as well to check the animals’ vaccination status before purchase. With ‘Fosholi’, launched by IDSS (Intelligent Decision Support System) project of ACI, such possibilities of vaccination management through mobile app can be achieved by Bangladesh in near future.

Dr. F H Ansarey
Managing Director & CEO
ACI Agribusiness