Abstract
Poultry disease statistics in Nigeria reveal a serious and growing problem with absolute fatality rate and casualty figure rising rapidly. A crucial goal of infectious disease surveillance is the early detection of epidemics, which is essential for disease control. The current system for monitoring poultry disease is based on conventional method using extension workers and confirmed case reports which has proved ineffective over the years. The poultry disease monitoring system aimed at assisting poultry farmers, healthcare officers and stakeholders alike to understand the distribution of poultry diseases and the state of poultry farms in Nigeria in order to ensure early detection and response during an outbreak. The system requirement was elicited from poultry farmers located within the south-western part of Nigeria using interviews while the requirements were designed using use-case diagrams for the representing data insertion and data query. The system was implemented using HTML, PHP and CSS while the database was implemented using MYSQL. In conclusion, the use of monitoring system would be of great importance in providing accurate, timely and detailed information about poultry disease in Nigeria. It will also help to alert disease control agencies about poultry related diseases in Nigeria.
Highlights
Poultry is an important element for the diversification of Nigeria’s economy and increasing household food security [1]
This study presents the implementation of a web-based system for monitoring poultry disease from poultry farms remotely assisting government agencies and other stakeholders in poultry farming and management to track and monitor chicken diseases especially Newcastle disease and the necessary preventive and control measures to save their livestock and their livelihood income which provides economic benefits to them
The system design is simple enough for use by anyone with little knowledge of computing and since the targeted end users are poultry farmers and disease control department of local government area in the study area, the system is user friendly and made easy to use through the use of windows and interface menu
Summary
Poultry is an important element for the diversification of Nigeria’s economy and increasing household food security [1]. Poultry outnumbers all other forms of livestock in Nigeria and are found in most part of the country and chickens remain the most common poultry birds reared across Nigeria’s poultry farms (Adene and Oguntade, 2006). Most of these chickens are maintained under traditional, low input, free-range systems of management substantial numbers are reared intensively on a commercial basis (Adene and Oguntade, 2006). The major constraint on traditional or commercial chicken production in Nigeria are poultry diseases especially the Newcastle disease that affects local breeds during certain season of the year [4,5,6]
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