To forewarn those dealing with livestock about the diseases that could affect their farm animals, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease Informatics (NIVEDI), have developed a mobile application to send out early warnings. The app will also provide information about clinical samples for the diagnosis in case of the epidemic. Earlier, the Centre has come out with an application to help farmers on crop damages.
launching the app, Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Wednesday said that dreaded Rinderpest disease has been eradicated from India and stressed that similar efforts are needed to control and eradicate diseases like foot and mouth diseases, PPR (peste des petits ruminants ), Brucellosis, CSF (Classical swine fever), Bluetongue disease, Haemorrhagic septicaemia which cause huge economic loss annually to the livestock rearers and livestock industry as a whole.
He said that ICAR-NIVEDI has identified 13 priority diseases based on their past incidence patterns and has built a strong database of these diseases and has been providing monthly livestock disease alerts to the State and Central animal husbandry departments. The app will also provide information about clinical samples for the diagnosis in case of the epidemic.