Africa Innovates Magazine - Flipbook - Page 25
AGRICULTURE
CREATING EARLY
WARNING SYSTEMS
FOR LIVESTOCK EPIDEMICS
IN SENEGAL
Photo credit: BOULENGER Xavier (Shutterstock)
Daral Technologies has one ambition – connecting
livestock farmers and enabling them to track and
follow their cattle.
In 2008, Amadou Sow invented Daral, technology which
helps small farmers monitor their herd. Daral, which translates
as ‘livestock market’ in Wolof, is a web app-based platform,
offering a tracking system for cattle. It links to a database which
enables farmers to connect with vets, public authorities, and
other farmers. It provides an alert system for theft, disease, and
climate-related environmental disasters. Daral identifies farmers
and tags their animals (over 49,062 are currently on-record)
through a microchip, ensuring that each is always identifiable.
Over 2,691 farmers have been registered.
‘‘In Senegal, our herds are our culture. With this new technology,
the problem of cattle theft becomes an old phenomenon.’’
“No African country has reliable
statistics on cattle, and yet we have
to deal with cattle rustling and
recurrent epizootic diseases, with no
early alert system, or animal tracking.
(…) With new technologies, we can
defeat these challenges.”
Amadou Sow,
Daral Technologies CEO
Photo credit: Daral Technologies
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