Introduction:
Currently we are going through the era of Information Technology. In the past when technology was not the part of information, it was very tough to look after the huge businesses or the progress of a multinational company. It was hard to generate output reports that whether the business is in profit or loss. If a business was in loss then it was difficult to decide that what are the causes because of what the business has gone into loss. Thanks to Information Technology which makes our businesses easier and our lives happier. Its Information Technology that make us able to see all the pros and cons of a business on a single page report whether it is in graphical or tabular form.
Information Technology (Info-Tech or IT) in Poultry Farming:
Information Technology plays vital role in the field of Poultry. It is possible to have full and complete control over all the activities done in the poultry farm by sitting in one location. Moreover, by sitting in one place we can monitor and control many poultry farms located at various locations. See how Information Technology (IT) works to control the poultry farming business:
Tools required:
The I.T. tools that are required to control the poultry farm shed are mentioned as below:
- Computer System
- Printer
- Local Area Network
- Internet
- Sensing Technology (Sensors)
- I.P. Cameras
- Software (Online Database Software)
Operations:
Indeed, a poultry management I.T. software enhances operational capabilities
and boosts transparency in the reporting process. There are the aspects
of management, stock management, material trace-ability and
transportation of feed, stocks and medicines among other things — all of
which will be daunting to be handled without some sort of poultry
farming software.Poultry operations with respect to I.T. can be discussed into the following headings:
- Input Operations
- Output Operations
Input Operations:
At input level feeding of data into the system (data entry) is performed. In data entry we have the following data entry fields/areas:
- Total number of chicks in the current folk (one time entry for each folk)
- Total cost of the chicks (one time entry for each folk)
- Number of chicks died (Daily basis)
- Amount of feed given
- Unit price of feed bag
- Total amount of Vaccination used
- Unit price of Vaccination/medicine
- Utility Bills
- Personnel Salaries
- Other Expenditures
- Price of Waste material of the Farm that is sold
Outputs:
We may have the following heads:
We may have the following heads:
- Total number of chicks currently present/alive
- Current cost of per chick
- Amount of feed utilized till date
- Total cost of feed utilized till date
- Profit/Loss graph along with statistics
In poultry software we may have the following modules:
- Shed Control
- Cash and Accounts
- Personnel
It is I.T. which makes everything automatic in the poultry farm and report us about each and everything accurately. For example, by the installation of sensing technology and I.T we can control Feeding system, Air Flow System, pressure of air and humidity inside the farm, Temperature, Provision of Drinking Water for Chicks etc. moreover we can view and control each thing in the each poultry farm, no matter how far it is situated, even from our bedroom. On one click we can generate any kind of report i.e. statistical and graphical for analysis.
