Web-based Information System for Management of Swine Breeding Herd Farm

Abstract

A Web-based Information System (WIS) was developed using open source software (Linux Operating System, Apache web server, MySQL and PHP, which are collectively known as LAMP) to assist swine breeding herd management in data recording and tracing, as well as in problem diagnosis.
A farm survey was conducted to obtain basic information including problems and farmers’ needs. The existing available computer program was analyzed to design a new system. Programs for data importing, user interface and various reports and graphs, as well as data exporting and database backups were developed. Then, data was tested from the available PigLIVE program used on a farm in Nakornpathom province. The developed WIS was pilot implemented on six farms in Ubonratchatani province. The results of the pilot implementation indicated that WIS could be operated on the Internet, the Intranet or on a stand-alone computer. In addition, it could eliminate the cost of the swine breeding herd management software and the operating system and increase the efficiency of data access on the farm. Based on recommendations from targeted end users, WIS will be updated and expanded to provide an efficient tool for swine breeding herd management in the future.