Design and Implementation of the IT based Hog Breeding Management Application

Abstract

Korea hog industry has grown with the biggest product scale. However, the current circumstance is that it is lagging behind in market share by imported livestock products as the market has opened as a result of the recent FTA signing, and it is experiencing difficulties due to increased production cost that resulted from the increase in international grain price. In addition, productivity of farms is not being improved due to low level management technology. To solve such problem, this paper proposed IT-based hog breeding management application. The proposed application has been developed at the eye level of farms for conveniently and easily managing the items required by hog farms. In this application, items were determined by focusing on the sow, market pigs and feed feeding directly connected to the income of hog farms, and shipment prediction item was inserted to allow users to pay attention to business management by being aware of income for each month. In addition, feed cost that currently occupies 60~70% of production cost could be reduced through feed feeding management. Based on this, it is expected to improve the productivity of hog farm and increase the competitiveness of domestic livestock products through systematic breeding management.