Visual data mining tool and database for assessing district-wise animal and feed resources in India

Abstract

Animal and feed resource management planning must address economic and social sustainability. Integrated database with spatial interactions of animal and feed resources in the country is a key planning process. The impacts of a management plan on animal and feed resources are often hard to anticipate. Combining database management system tool with recent visualization techniques would be workable option. This paper presents a visualization tool to produce dynamic simulation of district-wise animal and feed resources availability and requirement in the country over a period of 20 years (1985 to 2005). It describes over all architecture of database as well as connection to GIS (Spatial decision support system). Database has been developed to store and maintain of feed and animal resource data. Programs were developed for database management, analysis and to convert animal and feed resources data to spatial and graphical form. The visualization tool provides effective information to assess animal and feed resources and impact on livestock at district level.