Livestock database management: preliminary studies in Malaysia / F. Saad, R. Ismail and I. Ismail

This paper outlined the preliminary studies in
Malaysia for livestock database management. Livestock area
signifies the biggest food industry segment in Malaysia. Selfsufficiency in livestock product for beef, mutton and dairy
product is claimed to be low by the Department of Veterinary
Services (DVS) in year 2015, which is less than 30%. To improve
the current Malaysia livestock industry, this paper proposes a
better management system especially in handling database of the
cattle at Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development
Institute (MARDI). The objectives of this work are; to study and
propose on livestock database management system architecture
and to develop graphical user interface (GUI) for livestock
management system. A system combining the RFID technology
supported with GUI is developed using VisualBasic.NET for four
sections that are breeding, feedlot-fattening, dairying and
slaughtering. User may update the data on the GUI and view
existing data collected from the tag, which is then automatically
updated at the central database. The data gathered on
temperature will be further analyzed for early detection of
disease.