Digital Solution
Sudhokko

country Bangladesh

The Sudhokko smartphone app is primarily intended for use among livestock service providers (LSPs), with the support of livestock officers, while making farmers more confident in the services being provided. The app includes schedule creating; details regarding providing medical care; medicine selection based on disease/symptoms; accounts keeping; calculating transportation cost and call records reminders. It also contains videos that LSPs can share with farmers. After a visit from a participating livestock service provider, farmers receive a text message with a visit summary, details on treatments and prescriptions, and have the chance to provide feedback on services. The app has been tested with 100-120 LSPs since October 2019. Companies can promote their products on the app. The data generated by the LSPs in using the app is curated into a web-based Market Intelligence Platform with livestock pharma companies and research organizations as the end users. The platform will avail them information like disease pattern, medicine usage pattern of LSPs in different types of diseases, usage of their own brands of products as well as other brands by LSPs etc. An added Breed Identification and Cattle Registry feature helps the artificial insemination (AI) technician to identify the breed of a particular cow, by matching the types and percentages of exotic breed charecteristic present in that cow, in order to make optimum recommendation for AI selection.

Digital Solution (DS) Category

Digital Agriculture

Digital Solution Type (sub-category)

Livestock management & animal health

Delivery type (format)

Mobile app

SMS services / Voice messaging

DS supplier-user category

Business to business

Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)

Multi-partners

Name of supplier/developer

mPower Social Enterprises Ltd. (Social enterprise founded by graduate students of Harvard University and MIT)

Primary Users

Farmers , Agribusiness / private company

Digital Solution Development Stage

Commercial stage (limited use)

Number of users or subscribers

Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience

Digital Solution Geographic scope

Few locations in Bangladesh

Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DS webpage

Other useful link

Other useful link

DS links to Government programmes, initiatives, and projects

DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes

Other relevant links and information sources on DS

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital initiatives