Mobile App to help goat, sheep farmers

Madurai | Tuesday | 9th October, 2018

Summary:

Dean, Veterinary College and Research Institute, Tirunelveli M.

Thirunavukkarasu, presided over the function and released ‘Mobile App for Sheep and Goat Farmers’. The efficacy of the App has been tested with randomly selected 60 sheep farmers and 30 goat farmers, 50 extension personnel and 25 technical experts. The mobile app will be uploaded in Google playstore within two months so that the farmers using Android mobile phones can download it and start receiving information on sheep and goat rearing. more-inTIRUNELVELIThe Veterinary College and Research Institute here, which plays a pivotal role in augmenting the revenue of the cattle farmers by organising series of awareness programmes and camps in the villages, has come out with a mobile App to help the goat and sheep farmers. As part of the project, a workshop for farmers on ‘Mobile App in Small Ruminant Farming System’ was conducted to appraise the know-how of the mobile application software in Tamil and English on Monday at Veterinary College and Research Institute, Tirunelveli..