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Heifer
Heifer International's work with communities to end world hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth. Heifer focuses on livestock, improved technology and technical training and education for knowledge and awareness. Heifer Nepal has been working towards expanding its program impact to reach out to more families through the use of technology and innovation.
Rumsan developed the Livestock Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS) for Heifer, an intuitive mobile-based platform integrated with blockchain technology. LSCMS enables farmers, vets, cooperatives, and distributors to log supply chain data at various levels, ensuring transparency and traceability. The system generates QR codes that provide consumers with detailed information about the goats, enhancing trust and accountability within the livestock supply chain.
Rumsan developed the Livestock Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS) for Heifer, an intuitive mobile-based platform integrated with blockchain technology. LSCMS enables farmers, vets, cooperatives, and distributors to log supply chain data at various levels, ensuring transparency and traceability. The system generates QR codes that provide consumers with detailed information about the goats, enhancing trust and accountability within the livestock supply chain.
The Challenges
Nepal's livestock sector lacks transparency and traceability, which presents a critical barrier to ensuring quality, market competitiveness, and stakeholder accountability. Despite efforts under the Community Initiated Genetic Improvement in Goat (CIGIG) project by Heifer Nepal, data collection remains largely manual and inconsistent. While basic records such as birth dates and monthly weight are maintained by farmers and later digitized by cooperative facilitators, vital health-related data, such as vaccination, medical treatments, and breeding history, are often unrecorded.
This fragmented and non-standardized system limits the ability to verify the quality and origin of livestock, making it difficult for consumers to trust the product and for farmers to receive premium pricing for higher-quality goats. Moreover, the absence of a centralized, tamper-proof record discourages accountability among various actors in the supply chain.
This fragmented and non-standardized system limits the ability to verify the quality and origin of livestock, making it difficult for consumers to trust the product and for farmers to receive premium pricing for higher-quality goats. Moreover, the absence of a centralized, tamper-proof record discourages accountability among various actors in the supply chain.
The Solutions
The Livestock Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS) records all the information from goat production to its supply. This system promotes fact-based certification while attempting to prove the superior quality of goats raised by the farmers. The supply chain tracking system also makes all the stakeholders accountable for their actions. All the important data points of the goat supply chain will be generated into QR code. This will enable consumers to know about the origin and history of goats that they buy by scanning the QR code. On top of that, the usage of blockchain will make the data immutable and decentralized making it more credible.
Technology
- Database: MongoDB
- UI: CSS/Javascript with bootstrap framework
- Programming Language: JavaScript, React Native
- Server: NodeJS
- Blockchain: Ethereum