Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) has partnered with ISAP India Foundation to modernize dairy farming within the water-scarce area of Antargaon in Wardha District, Maharashtra.

The initiative—”Economic and Social Development of Indian Village Through Technology-Enabled Dairy Farming”—additionally concerned collaboration with know-how implementation associate eVerse.AI to implement the company social accountability (CSR) undertaking.

India has the world’s largest bovine inhabitants and is a pacesetter in milk manufacturing. However, it faces challenges reminiscent of low milk-yield per animal and inadequate high quality of milk merchandise. The decentralized construction of dairy farming in India and restricted consciousness about scientific veterinary practices amongst rural farmers contributes to those points.

By partnering with ISAP India Foundation—a not-for-profit company engaged in main national-level livelihood promotion and agriculture advertising consultancy—Rockwell goals to enhance livelihoods of dairy farmers in some of the water-scarce areas of India by utilizing modern services and products that leverage digital applied sciences for livestock growth via scientifically-proven veterinary practices.

The initiative supplies a set of companies to dairy farmers, together with:

• Supplying Internet of Things (IoT) enabled collar gadgets for monitoring important well being parameters of dairy animals;
• Providing cellular phone-based alerts and recommendation to farmers from veterinary consultants;
• Use of muzzle-based biometric identification system to supply digital id to animals together with 12-digit Pashu Aadhar;
• Use of eVerse.AI’s newly launched CowGPT platform to supply correct insights and advisory to dairy farmers about animal well being, ration balancing advisory companies, fodder growth actions, provide of high quality animal feed, village stage animal well being companies, dairy farming extension packages (coaching, demos, professional visits), market integration actions for milk sale, and the creation of further income sources for households of dairy farmers using animal waste merchandise.

The undertaking, which started in May 2023, has already yielded promising outcomes. In a latest subject go to to Antargaon, progress was shared with native dairy farmers via an interactive session. Farmers expressed optimistic suggestions, citing a 15-20% improve in milk manufacturing throughout the final six months. Milk high quality has additionally improved, serving to them to realize larger costs and rising family earnings.

“We are thrilled that our CSR project at Antargaon, Maharashtra, is already showing early signs of success and providing tangible benefits to local farmers, and augmenting their incomes,” stated Dilip Sawhney, managing director, Rockwell Automation India. “We are confident that this project will continue to help the people of Antargaon to benefit from the technology-enabled scientific management of the health and reproductive cycles of their farm animals. Projects like this will eventually lead to improved incomes and better quality of life in rural communities throughout India.”

Learn extra about different Rockwell Automation company social accountability efforts within the firm’s 2023 Sustainability Report.

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