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SAVE FARMERS! TRACK STRAY ANIMALS
किसानों को बचाओ! आवारा जानवरों को ट्रैक करें
Appeal
Help the farmers. Considering their situation in Uttar Pradesh we have decided to build an application to track all the animals roaming on the road and fields and sent back in Go-Ashray. Our objective is to create a mobile app to identify the Animals which are moving in fields and on-road and notify the team to take care of these animals. Also, we track how many animals are in the Go-Ashray every week. To track the animals we use google maps as well as machine learning.
THE PROBLEM
In the state of Uttar Pradesh, the stray cattle roaming on the roads and fields have been causing a lot of problems to both rural and urban residents.
- Despite the government efforts to install crash barriers/fences along the highways to prevent the entry of stray cattle onto the highways, there were several instances of stray cattle creating hurdles to the fast-moving traffic on the highway. Many road accidents have been reported till date and have resulted in the loss of both human and cattle lives.
- Some stray cattle siege the roads in towns and cities by resting in the middle of the roads thereby leading to traffic jams and discomfort to the people who are using roads.
- There were also several instances of the stray cattle damaging the soon-to-harvest crop fields in rural areas thereby resulting in significant financial loss to the farmers.
The government of UP has also come up with a plethora of schemes aimed to protect the cows and also decrease the damage caused by stray cows. As per the 2012 cattle census, Uttar Pradesh has around 205.66 lakh total cattle population and out of which 12 lakh are stray cattle. However, the state has only 523 registered cattle sheds to maintain the cattle. This sheer gap in cattle population and the number of cattle sheds in the state provide us some insights on how grave the problem of stray cattle is.
OUR SOLUTION
To solve these multiple problems, the NGO is building an app to enable real-time tracking of all the cows belonging to various cow shelters. They are trying to tag each cow with a unique ID and develop a real-time database of cows and cow shelters in the state. This database is then shared with both the District Magistrate’s Office for better surveillance and monitoring.
THE IMPACT
Regular monitoring of cattle numbers can help to make the system more answerable and will bring reduction in number of incidents related to crop damage and hence prevent farmers from suicide. The monetary support to a cow shelter is being disbursed based on the number of cows being maintained under it. Due to a lack of better tracking systems in place, many of the cows grazing the farmer’s fields.
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