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A mobile App helping Dairy farmers in Kenya to monitor their farms from miles away

Smart Cow Application by Intersoft Eagles System is good news to all Dairy farmers in the country since it enables one to closely monitor the farm from miles away.

This simple software tracks all the happenings on a farm from breeding, feeding to paying workers’ salaries, enhancing efficiency.

The system automatically calculates total milk production from the cows, highlighting the highest and lowest producers, and Monitors the animals’ since the software keeps records of treatment, including diagnosis and medication of the cows.

This system uses Google servers, therefore you cannot loose any data in case of virus attack. This is because you will retrieve all the data from the cloud.

A mobile App helping Dairy farmers in Kenya to monitor their farms from miles away

As a farmer, all you have to do is to train your staff how to key in the data on their daily activities on the farm in their smart phones, this, therefore will help you keep tract of the farmer no matter how farm you are from the farm.

Once the workers input data, for instance, on milk, it is processed and then you can monitor the information from wherever you are. And to track milk sales, a farmer can input in the App records of all the hotels, tea estates and milk coolers that he/she supplies milk to, thus, at the end of the month, it is easier to know his/her earnings.

Having this data easily enables a farmer to print out and send invoices to clients easily. The system further automatically calculates total milk production from the cows, highlighting the highest and lowest producers.

The application also helps a farmer to keep an inventory of feeds, their nutrition value and total cost.

With the system, you can do your calculations. A kilo of dairy meal translates to about three liters of milk. For example, if a cow is producing 30 liters of milk, you can give it about 8kg of dairy meal per day while the one producing 15 liters you can give it 3kg of dairy meal.

Another important feature of the Smart Cow Application is that the software further alerts the farmer about the drying and steaming dates. In addition, the software monitors animal’s health by keeping records of treatment, including diagnosis and medication.

The app also gives deworming and vaccination dates for each dairy cows. It gives a farmer the cost incurred in treatment, the dosage of drugs, bills and the vets enabling one to track how much he/she spend on the animal.

The app then calculates the daily, monthly or annual expenses against the income, thus, breaking down gross profit or loss.

A farmer can easily check the expenses in terms of feeds, disease management, breeding cost and their trends. Then tabulate the information in graphs and analyze it on PowerPoint presentations. The system enables easy identification of the loopholes that one can therefore be corrected.

You can keep a database of your workers, advance payment made and the salaries using the software.

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