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Conservation and improvement of livestock has been taken care of by farming communities with the help of government and non-government agencies through traditional knowledge which they acquire from their ancestors. For long, farming has been basically a range-based system. With the advent of scientific knowledge and management practices, animal husbandry has gone global, tilted towards an intensive system of farming involving high inputs. As a result, commercially viable livestock breeds have found a higher share amongst farming communities worldwide, affecting the existence of less productive but better adaptive genetic resources.

The commercial breeds are globally monitored by advanced countries for their genetic evaluation and conservation. However, small ruminant species, especially goats mainly originating from Asia and Africa, have not been properly identified, described, monitored, pedigree, and performance evaluated. A need has been felt by policy planners and development workers to evolve an information system for managing the livestock genetic resources, evaluating their performance, aiding their conservation, and genetic improvement for sustainable production.

Considering the global requirement, the Small Ruminants Production and Research Information Management System (SRPDIS) was developed on a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) platform using MySQL and PHP. This software is capable of handling large numbers of livestock inventory, their growth, milk production, reproduction, health management aspects, wool production, socio-economic aspects, finance management, profit and benefit-sharing modules, etc.

The security aspects have been incorporated in such a manner that only designated persons responsible for updating the database of a particular breed can manage the information of respective breeds through a secured login and password. The fields in body weight growth include weight at birth, at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of age. Similarly, milk production fields include weekly milk yield, lactation length, lactation yield, etc. The inventory includes the date, place of birth, pedigree, type of disposal, mode of disposal, value at the time of disposal, etc. Health management aspects include different fields, i.e., vaccinations, drenching, deworming, disease, etc. Reproduction includes age and weight at sexual maturity, age and type of service, date and type of kidding, service period, inter-kidding interval, etc. Similarly, wool yield has relevant fields.

This software fulfills the long-awaited gap and requirement of an information management system that can cater to the national as well as global management of information being generated on small ruminant production and research. With the commissioning of this software in a capable data center having appropriate internet speed and storage capacity, voluminous information on sheep and goats of the country can be handled electronically in an easier and more secured manner to generate knowledge for aiding farmers, livestock development workers, and policy planners in formulating appropriate policies for the conservation and improvement of small ruminants.

This is for use by all unit in-charges for uploading their data and activities. This software was developed for comparative data reporting for AICRP on Goat Improvement. This information management system was developed at Project Coordinator Unit CIRG, Makhdoom, Farah, Mathura-281122. We acknowledge the help and support of the Director, CIRG, and all Unit in-charges of different AICRP Unit in developing and implementing their valuable support.