About e-Samrudha
e-Samrudha

e-Samrudha is a digital livestock and e-Health Management system for Kerala. The project is initiated by Department of Animal Husbandry in Technical Collaboration with Digital university Kerala. e-Samrudha is being developed using the state of the art digital technology tools and brings a comprehensive digital platform for the Animal Husbandry and Diary sector.

e-Samrudha envisages integrating all the activities of Livestock management and veterinary services in the state. e-Samrudha provides State-wide farmer Database, RFID enabled Animal Traceability and identification, Mobile app for farmers and owners with Online booking facility for OP consultation, Hospital Management, Clinical Services and e-Health Management, Electronic Veterinary Health records, Vaccination management, Breeding Management, Production management, Insurance management, Predication of diseases, Analytics-driven MIS Dashboards etc into one digital platform. The electronic health record of all the animals in the state are maintained being made available to the veterinarians, livestock inspectors, extension officers, insurance companies, Banks, and other stakeholders for easy access. Animals and their products will be traced back to their origin to address veterinary public health concerns and ensure compliance.

Core Features of e-Samrudha

  • e-samrudha mobile app for farmers

  • Mobile app for field Veterinary service

  • RFID based Animal traceability

  • Online Booking facility for veterinary consultation

  • Integrated Hospital Management

  • Health and Clinical Management Suite
  • Access to Electronic Veterinary Records

  • Insurance Management

  • Breeding Management

  • Productivity Monitoring

  • Analytics driven dashboard
Features of e-Samrudha

The e-Samrudha Digital Platform has the following major functions and features to support the Veterinary services in the state.

Statewide Farmer Database, RFID enabled Animal Traceability and identification, Mobile app for farmers/owners, Online booking for OP consultation, Hospital Management, Clinical Services and e-Health Management, Electronic Veterinary Health records, Vaccination management, Breeding Management, Production management, SLBP scheme, Insurance management, Predication of diseases, Analytics-driven MIS Dashboards etc

RFID-based Animal Traceability

According to animal census, there are about 14 lakhs cattle in Kerala. A separate identification document is essential for each animal as part of various government schemes for livestock like health and disease management, breeding management, insurance, and animal transfer. Currently, the method of attaching plastic ear tags is used to identify the cattle and buffalo. But this method has several drawbacks. Not only does ear piercing have health related problems, including infection and the possibility of losing the physical tags, but it is also true that this traditional method is not effective in creating a comprehensive database of animals. As a permanent solution to this, a Digital solution with RFID-based animal tagging and traceability is developed. This new identification system is called Radio Frequency Identification, abbreviated as RFID. This microchip based tag is implanted into an animal, it lasts till the life of the animal without causing any side effects, but it also hlp us to build a highly robust and authentic database where all the information about each animal can be stored and being managed. As the pilot level implementation, 75000 animals (Cattles and buffalos) were tagged in the Pathanamthitta district of Kerala. The RFID tags will be replicated for the entire state of Kerala on the coming years.

Hospital Management

Hospital management is intended for the streamlining of the operations of the institution like OP management, Laboratory and diagnostics management, Radio diagnostics, Medicine stock and Inventory management, etc. The laboratory management and radio diagnostics management will enable the lab results to be digitally integrated with e-Samrudha platform from the Lab immediately on completion of the test and gets integrated with e-Veterinary Record. The pharmacy and medicine stock will be managed through e-stock management in real-time.

e-Veterinary Health Record

The entire treatment, vaccination, and entire health record of the animal is integrated with the e-samrudha platform. The doctors, insurance team, and field officers can access to the health record on demand. This will help the field veterinary team to access the animal health record to provide effective veterinary services

e-Stock Management and Pharmacy systems

Medicine stock management, sourcing, supply chain at each dispensary has become a major issue for the Veterinarians. The medicines are sourced through AH Department and LSGD procurements. Separate stock registers are maintained for Common Drugs, Patent Drugs, Disposables, of AH Department supply and LSG Supply and other sources. e-Samrudha will provide e-stock management for medicines across the state. The entire medicine stock management, vaccination management details will be captured through the system.

Insurance Management

Insurance is one of the key elements in Livestock management. It is proposed to have API-based seamless service integration of animal health records with insurance agencies and banks. With the unique ID of the farmer and animals, the farmers as well as the animals can be easily traceable. The App/UPI and digital payment integration will facilitate the farmers to pay the premium seamlessly and can be integrated with the e-Samrudha system. The entire insurance management process like premium payment, claim processing, reports submission and claim tracking etc can be done through the e-samrudha platform by the Veterinary doctors as well as farmers. The insurance claim processing will become very easy for the insurance providers as the entire veterinary health record of the animal is available to the insurance providers.

Breeding management

For Artificial Insemination Process, the farmer and animal identification can be done through the system (Both in clinic or in the field level). Based on the animal productivity analysis, the bull selection will also be facilitated using an AI-powered recommendation process by referring to the previous insemination history and productivity details. The proposed system will take less than 3 minutes as only the pathological condition if anything to be noted is required to be entered as well as date of AI and all others are automatically captured and filled in by the system.

Farmer Mobile APP

e-Samrudha has introduced a mobile app based veterinary service for the farmers/owners. The farmer can book the consultation service of their preferred doctors online and get the confirmation in advance. The details of treatment, medicine prescription, reports, vaccination certificate, health certificate etc active mediations etc is accessible through the mobile app

Production Data management

The productivity data of the Animal is highly important for livestock planning and effective breeding management. The production details and the relevant details are captured into the system by the farmers through a mobile app-based interface. Based on the data and other parameters of the Animal, the production can be predicted and the inferences will be generated.

Analytics Dashboard

The analytics-based dashboard will enable the officers to generate relevant progress reports of various kinds. The reports will be integrated across the state and the real-time MIS dashboard provides seamless report of levels. This will save considerable time for the Vet to attend to cases referred/presented to him/her. It will bring down the unnecessary work pressure on him so that he can concentrate on his clinical duties in a more productive manner. He/she will be mentally stress free leading to better time management and better quality of service.

Veterinary Services in the state view all
Veterinary Clinical Services

AHD has one Multi Speciality Veterinary Hospital(MSVH) in Thiruvananthapuram, 14 District Veterinary Centres(DVC) - One in each district,49 Veterinary Poly clinics at block level ,213 Veterinary Hospitals and 869 Veterinary Dispensaries at Panchayath level,one Motor Boat Veterinary Hospital and 10 Mobile Farm Aid Units providing relentless service to farmers as well as pet animal owners of the state. These institutions are actively involved in the treatment and vaccination of animals,Livestock Insurance,extension activities of the department creating awareness about various management practices,Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health Hazards pertaining to animal husbandry, containment of animal disease outbreaks like Avian Influenza and African Swine Fever and assisting in sustainable livelihood of the farmers through implementation of LSGD schemes in the animal husbandry sector.

Diagnostic & Vaccine Production Laboratories

State Institute for Animal Diseases (SIAD),Palode is a prestigious institution of the department where sample from all across the state are tested for Rabies,Brucellosis,Leptospirosis,Foot and Mouth Disease and various other animal diseases of zoonotic and economic importance.Human rabies cases are tested and confirmed at SIAD. The Institute of Animal Health & Veterinary Biologicals(IAH & VB),Palode produces viral and bacterial vaccines against cattle and poultry diseases. State Lab for Marine and Agricultural Products(SLMAP) has state-of-the-art facilities for the examination of livestock, marine and agricultural products. AHD has 13 clinical labs, one Avian Disease Diagnostic Lab(ADDL) and 2 Regional Diagnostic labs for Disease Diagnosis.

Mobile Veterinary Units & State Call Centre

32 Mobile Veterinary Units(MVU) are there under the department for doorstep treatment of animals and a state call center coordinates the activities of the MVUs and handles calls from farmers for non emergency cases

Farms and Training centres

We have 4 Livestock farms,3 goat farms,6 Pig breeding Units,6 regional poultry Farms,2 District poultry farms,2 Duck/Turkey farms and 1 Central hatchery
Livestock Management Training Centres at various districts conduct trainings to farmers and department officials facilitating transfer of knowledge and updating skills.

Dashboards & Reports

Department will provided its various performance dashboard and reports to officials and public.


State Level Monitoring Dashboard Localbody Wise Dashboard Hospital Dashboard RFID Tagging Dashboard Laboratory Dashboard Breeding Management Dashboard Various Reports etc...
Events and Calendar

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Recent Events:
  • Department of Animal Husbandry, Government of Kerala signed a MoU with Digital University Kerala for the implementation of e-Samrudha Project
  • e-Samrudha project training scheduled on 17th May 2023
Contact us
Technical and Technology-Related Queries

Director
Centre for Digital Innovation and Product Development
Digital University Kerala
Email : esamrudha@duk.ac.in
Support Help Desk : 0471-2788098

Project Related Queries

Director
Department of Animal Husbandry
Directorate of Animal Husbandry
Vikas Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Email : directorah.ker@nic.in

Project initiated and owned by
Department of Animal Husbandry
Government of Kerala
Designed, Developed, Implemented and Managed by
Centre for Digital Innovation and Product Development (CDIPD)
(A Centre of Excellence Established by Digital University Kerala)