Agriculture and Animal Husbandry


BASU Feed
Purpose of the BASU Feed App
The BASU Feed App is a digital livestock advisory tool developed by the Department of Animal Nutrition, Bihar Animal Sciences University (BASU), Patna, to help livestock farmers prepare scientifically balanced and cost-effective rations for their animals. The application aims to improve animal nutrition by providing personalized feeding recommendations based on the species, breed, physiological stage, milk production, body weight, and pregnancy status of each animal.
The primary purpose of the app is to bridge the gap between scientific research and practical livestock management by making expert nutritional advice readily accessible to farmers through their smartphones. By enabling farmers to formulate balanced diets using locally available feed resources, the app helps improve animal health, enhance milk production, increase reproductive efficiency, reduce feed wastage, and lower feeding costs.
The BASU Feed App also serves as an extension tool for promoting scientific livestock management practices. It empowers farmers, dairy entrepreneurs, veterinarians, extension professionals, and students with reliable, evidence-based feeding recommendations, thereby supporting sustainable livestock production and improving farmers’ income.
Overall, the app contributes to the broader goals of enhancing livestock productivity, ensuring nutritional security, promoting profitable dairy farming, and strengthening digital extension services in Bihar and across India.
Key Features of BASU Feed App
- Balanced Feed Formulation: Generates scientifically balanced ration recommendations for livestock based on their nutritional requirements.
- Species-specific Feeding Plans: Supports feed formulation for different livestock species, including cows (indigenous and crossbred) and buffaloes.
- Multilingual Interface: Available in Hindi and English, making it easy for farmers to use.
- Simple User Registration: Secure registration using a mobile number with OTP verification.
- Personalized Animal Profiles: Allows users to create and manage profiles of their animals for customized feeding recommendations.
- Customized Ration Calculation: Prepares balanced feed rations based on animal-specific information such as:
- Animal species and breed
- Physiological stage (growing, pregnant, lactating, or dry)
- Daily milk yield
- Body weight
- Stage of pregnancy
- Instant Feed Report: Automatically generates a comprehensive balanced ration report based on the entered information.
- Download and Share Reports: Users can download, save, print, or share the ration report via WhatsApp and other digital platforms.
- Scientifically Developed: The application is developed by the Department of Animal Nutrition, Bihar Animal Sciences University (BASU), Patna, ensuring recommendations are based on scientific feeding standards.
- Farmer-Friendly Design: Features an intuitive and easy-to-use interface, enabling farmers, dairy entrepreneurs, and extension workers to prepare balanced rations with minimal effort.
Benefits to Farmers
- Improves animal health and productivity.
- Enhances milk production and feed efficiency.
- Reduces feed costs through optimized ration formulation.
- Prevents nutritional deficiencies.
- Supports profitable and sustainable livestock farming.
- Provides quick, reliable, and science-based feeding recommendations at the farmer’s fingertips.
These features make the BASU Feed App a practical digital advisory tool for promoting scientific livestock nutrition and improving the productivity and profitability of dairy farmers in Bihar and beyond.
This app deals with the scientific feed formulation for indigenous and cross bred cattle and buffaloes to achieve the economical and optimum productive and reproductive performance of the animals.

BASU Poultry Guide
The BASU Poultry Guide App is a comprehensive mobile-based advisory application developed by Bihar Animal Sciences University (BASU), Patna, to provide poultry farmers, backyard poultry keepers, entrepreneurs, students, and extension professionals with reliable, scientific, and easily accessible information on poultry production and management.
The primary purpose of the application is to serve as a digital knowledge repository that promotes scientific poultry farming practices and facilitates informed decision-making. The app provides practical guidance on all aspects of poultry production, including breed selection, housing, feeding, health care, disease diagnosis, vaccination, biosecurity, farm management, and marketing. By making expert knowledge available in a simple and user-friendly format, the app helps improve productivity, reduce disease incidence, minimize economic losses, and enhance the profitability of poultry enterprises.
The application also functions as an effective digital extension tool by bridging the gap between scientific research and field-level adoption, thereby supporting sustainable poultry development, food and nutritional security, entrepreneurship, and rural livelihood enhancement.
Key Features
- Comprehensive Poultry Information: Provides complete scientific guidance on poultry farming from chick management to marketing.
- Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: Offers information on common poultry diseases, their symptoms, prevention, and recommended treatment measures.
- Vaccination Schedule: Includes scientifically recommended vaccination schedules for different categories of poultry birds.
- Breed Information: Provides details on improved poultry breeds and their suitability for different production systems.
- Scientific Management Practices: Covers housing, brooding, feeding, watering, litter management, and environmental control.
- Nutrition and Feeding Guidelines: Recommends balanced feeding practices for different growth stages and production purposes.
- Biosecurity and Farm Hygiene: Promotes preventive measures to minimize disease outbreaks and improve flock health.
- Multilingual Interface: Available in Hindi and English for wider accessibility among farmers.
- Farmer-friendly Navigation: Features an intuitive interface with categorized learning modules for quick and easy access to information.
- Digital Knowledge Resource: Serves as a portable reference guide for farmers, veterinarians, extension personnel, students, and poultry entrepreneurs, enabling access to scientific information anytime and anywhere.
Benefits
- Promotes scientific poultry farming practices.
- Improves flock health and productivity.
- Reduces disease outbreaks and mortality through timely vaccination and biosecurity.
- Supports informed decision-making for farmers and entrepreneurs.
- Enhances profitability and sustainability of poultry enterprises.
- Strengthens digital extension services by delivering expert knowledge directly to users’ smartphones.
The BASU Poultry Guide App serves as a one-stop digital advisory platform, empowering poultry farmers with practical, science-based knowledge for efficient, sustainable, and profitable poultry production.

VETBOOK Doctors App
The VETBOOK Doctors App is a comprehensive digital reference and clinical decision-support tool designed for veterinarians, veterinary officers, academicians, students, and livestock health professionals. The application provides quick and reliable access to essential veterinary information, enabling evidence-based diagnosis, treatment planning, drug dosage calculation, and emergency clinical management.
The primary purpose of the app is to serve as a portable veterinary knowledge resource, bringing together pharmacological information, disease management guidelines, clinical reference values, emergency drug protocols, and self-assessment tools on a single platform. By facilitating rapid access to scientific information at the point of care, the app supports accurate clinical decision-making, improves the quality of veterinary services, and enhances animal health and welfare.
The application also serves as an educational resource for veterinary students and practitioners by promoting continuous learning and professional competency through organized reference materials and interactive learning modules.
Key Features
- Dose Rate Calculator: Calculates accurate drug dosages based on species, body weight, and recommended therapeutic doses, minimizing medication errors.
- Clinical Reference Values: Provides standard physiological, hematological, biochemical, and clinical reference values for different animal species to support diagnosis and clinical interpretation.
- Emergency Drug Guide: Offers quick access to commonly used emergency drugs, indications, dosages, routes of administration, and precautions for emergency veterinary care.
- Veterinary Pharmacology Database: Contains comprehensive information on veterinary medicines, including drug classifications, indications, dosage regimens, contraindications, adverse effects, and withdrawal periods.
- Disease Management Guide: Provides scientific information on common infectious, parasitic, metabolic, nutritional, and surgical diseases, including diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control measures.
- MCQ Learning Module: Includes multiple-choice questions for self-assessment and preparation for undergraduate examinations, competitive examinations, and professional development.
- Powerful Search Function: Enables users to quickly search topics, diseases, drugs, and clinical references through an integrated search facility.
- Categorized Knowledge Repository: Organizes information into well-structured categories for easy navigation and rapid retrieval of veterinary information.
- User-friendly Interface: Features a simple, intuitive, and responsive design that enables quick access to essential clinical information in field and hospital settings.
- Educational and Clinical Decision Support: Functions as both a learning platform and a practical clinical aid for veterinarians, veterinary students, and animal health professionals.
Benefits
- Supports evidence-based veterinary practice.
- Improves diagnostic accuracy and treatment decisions.
- Reduces medication errors through accurate dose calculations.
- Provides instant access to critical clinical information during emergencies.
- Enhances learning and examination preparation for veterinary students.
- Promotes continuous professional development of veterinarians.
- Improves the quality and efficiency of animal healthcare services.
The VETBOOK Doctors App serves as a one-stop digital veterinary reference and clinical decision-support platform, empowering veterinary professionals with rapid access to scientific knowledge for efficient, accurate, and high-quality animal healthcare.
Rated for 3+
Drug doses, Pharmacology diseases and MCQs for Indian Veterinary Students![]()

Kisan Rath
NIC eGov Mobile
Rated for 3+
KISAN RATH Mobile App facilitates the farmers and traders across the country for transportation of agri-produce by connecting them with the transporters. The app interfaces with leading transport aggregators and individual transporters for providing a wide range of transport vehicles at required date and place, in a quick and easy way.![]()

IVRI-Veterinary Clinical Care App
ICAR-IASRI Education
Rated for 3+
This App is targeted to impart knowledge and skills to Graduating Veterinarians & Field Veterinary Officers about most frequent clinical conditions encountered in field conditions related to medicine (Mastitis, Bloat, TRP, Ketosis, Milk fever, Ruminal impaction & Calf diarrhoea), gynaecology (Pyometra, Anestrus, Repeat Breeding, Dystocia, RFM, Uterine torsion, Uterine prolapse, Cervico- vaginal prolapse & COD) & surgery (Urolithiasis, Caesarean Section, Hernia, Castration, Fracture & Wound).![]()

IVRI-Vaccination Guide App (टीकाकरण गाइड )
ICAR-IASRI Education
Rated for 3+
The IVRI-Vaccination Guide App designed and developed by ICARIVRI, Izatnagar, UP & IASRI, New Delhi is targeted to impart knowledge and skills to Graduating Veterinarians, Field Veterinary Officers, Paravets, Livestock, Poultry & Pet Owners about vaccination in domestic animals, poultry and pets.

IVRI-Animal Reproduction App(पशु प्रजनन)
ICAR-IASRI Education
Rated for 3+
Animal Reproduction App, designed and developed by ICAR-IVRI, Izatnagar, & IASRI, New Delhi is targeted to impart knowledge and act as a ready reckoner for the graduating veterinarians, veterinary officers and livestock entrepreneurs about reproductive problems in cattle and buffaloes and measures to treat and control them.![]()

IVRI-Zoonoses App
ICAR-IASRI Education
Rated for 3+
This App aims at providing basic information about important zoonotic infections including their modes of transmission, symptoms, prevention and control measures. The list of national disease control programmes
w.r.t. zoonotic diseases has also been included along with the list of notifiable diseases in animals. This App will be useful to students of veterinary and medical degree programmes, practicing veterinarians, health care workers and general public.![]()

IVRI-Technologies & Services App
ICAR-IASRI Education
Rated for 3+
IVRI- Technologies & Services App designed and developed by ICARIVRI, Izatnagar & IASRI, New Delhi is an inventory of important technologies developed by the ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute which have been commercialized or are ready for commercialization along with the services provided by the Institute.![]()

IVRI- Waste Management Guide App
ICAR-IASRI Education
Rated for 3+
IVRI-Waste Management Guide App is designed and developed by ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar in collaboration with ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, to impart information and knowledge to graduating veterinarians, field vets, general public, farmers and other stakeholders about management of waste originating from agriculture, livestock and household activities. ![]()

पशुओं में परजीवी नियंत्रण
ICAR-IASRI Education
Rated for 3+
The Mobile App “Pashuon me Parjeevi Niyantran” has been developed in “Hindi language” by the team of Scientists/ Subject Matter Specialist of Indian Veterinary Research Institute- Izatnagar. This App will provide basic knowledge and create awareness on the various aspects of parasitic diseases infecting/infesting large ruminants in India. Target groups of this “Mobile App” are different stakeholder’s viz. livestock owners, progressive farmers and dairy entrepreneurs![]()

Fodder & Range Grasses

KVK Mobile App
ICAR-IASRI Education
Rated for 3+
Get details of information and facilities about KVK by selecting state and district
• Know package of practices for crops, fisheries, horticulture and livestock
• Ask your farm related queries to experts and get solution
• Get prior information about events to be organized at KVK
• Access agro-commodity prices from eNAM portal![]()

Swine App
ICAR-NRC on Pig Education
Rated for 3+
This mobile app is developed covering the following aspects of pig husbandry practices to deliberate the latest technical know how for farmers and entrepreneurs. • Importance of pig farming • Breeds of pig
• Selection and Breeding plan of pig farm • Reproduction in pig • Management of pig • Feeding for pig • Ameliorative measure for climatic stress • Housing for pig • Formulation of efficient piggery project • Record keeping • Health calendar for Pig • Transportation of pig • Routine farm activities • Biosecurity guidelines of pig farm • Integrated pig farming • Slaughter management • Waste disposal • Traceability in Pig Value Chain • Diseases of pig • Availability of improved pig germplasm![]()

Dairy Prajnan
GADVASU Education
Rated for 3+
The business of dairy farming is dependent on efficient reproduction and optimum production status of individual animals in the herd. Farmer needs to have adequate knowledge of reproductive cyclicity of dairy animals, so as to prevent common problems like anoestrus, repeat breeding, placental retention, prolapse of genitalia and abortion in dairy animals. ![]()

Animal Genetic Resources of India (AGRI-IS)

Bakrimitra (ICAR - CIRG)
Central Institute for Research on Goat (ICAR-CIRG)Social
Rated for 3+
Preparation of Bakrimitra App Central Institute for Research on Goat (ICAR-CIRG), Makhdum, Farah, Mathura and Cooperative Cooperation of Internal Climate Research Institute Nairobi Kenya was built under the development of goat milk and mass value chain in the state of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.![]()

Forage India

ICAR-CIRB Bhains Janan (Buffalo Reproduction) App
ICAR – CIRB Education
Rated for 3+
Buffalo Reproduction is an educational mobile app to impart knowledge for buffalo owners and also a guide for VLDA and graduating veterinarians. It provides basic information on different areas of buffalo reproduction by dividing the whole content into seven distinct segments with frequently asked questions and answers.![]()

BASU Feed
BASU Poultry Guide
Kisan Rath
IVRI-Veterinary Clinical Care App
IVRI-Vaccination Guide App (टीकाकरण गाइड )
IVRI-Animal Reproduction App(पशु प्रजनन)
IVRI-Pig Farming App (शूकर पालन)
IVRI-Zoonoses App
IVRI - Artificial Insemination App
IVRI-Dairy Manager App (डेयरी मैनेजर)
IVRI-Technologies & Services App
IVRI- Waste Management Guide App
IVRI - Landlly Pig App
पशुओं में परजीवी नियंत्रण
Fodder & Range Grasses
KVK Mobile App
CIRG - Goat Farming (बकरी पालन )
Swine App
Dairy Husbandry Practices
TANUVAS - Sheep and Goat Farming
Dairy Animal Reproduction
Dairy Prajnan
Animal Genetic Resources of India (AGRI-IS)
Bakrimitra (ICAR - CIRG)
Forage India
Poultry Disease Center
Cobb Connection
FeedMix
ICAR-CIRB Bhains Janan (Buffalo Reproduction) App
Fish Farming in Hindi - Machhlee paalan
