e-Varaha

Information System for Safe Pork Production in North-Eastern India

The e-Varaha project visualizes importance of using IT-based tools for the holistic development of the piggery sector by the way of making available the right information at right time and establishing functional linkages between different players of the value chain so as to augment production, productivity and profitability of the piggery sector. IT application to record and visualize the movement of pigs-to-pork will help in understanding the current pig-to-pork chain in NER.
Stakeholders of the piggery will be benefited in many ways by the output of the project Pig farmers will be integrated to other players of value chain by enrollment into traceability system and pork processors will get several aids for ensuring safe pork production.


Features

Survey
The survey system contains questionnaires for surveying purpose of the farmers and traders. Based on the survey
data collected various statistics and data retrieval is available which would be helpful information to know about the current scenario of farmers and traders of the North-Eastern region.

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DSS
A web based Decision Support System (DSS) on different diseases of pig has been developed to arrive
at a decision on which pig can be converted into consumable quality pork.

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Pig-to-Pork
Provides an overall look of the flow route of piglet-to-pork in the system.The types of farmers and traders were
identified and categorized and their relative positions are shown along with route of the production system. Information of farmers/traders can be retrieved according to their position in the flow graph.

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e-Varaha System
A modular chart of the pig-to-pork information system which specifies each module separately and helps to look
at the complete scenario in a top-down approach. Each of the modules can be worked out separately and in the same time being linked to each other by some common information.

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Partners

IT Partners

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Manipur University
Tezpur University

Agri Partners

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati