CASE STUDY 3 Farm2Vet brings online vet platform to Viet Nam’s smallholder farmers Farm2Vet is an award-winning AI-powered platform that aims to provide veterinary services to farms, promote responsible antimicrobial use and revolutionize livestock production in low- and middle-income countries. High-density livestock production is a recent phenomenon in Viet Nam – previously, most agricultural activities were household-based with only a few animals. However, the demand for protein in Viet Nam has increased, leading to a growing need to increase the scale of livestock cultivation. Switching to larger-scale husbandry with higher animal density leads to increased transmission of infectious disease in these facilities. Coupled with a severe lack of qualified and independent vets to serve the industry, especially smallholder producers in remote locations, this has led to greater consumption of antimicrobials in livestock rearing – with more than 2,700 tonnes of antimicrobials used in Viet Nam’s animal production every year.114 Amid growing demand and changing husbandry practices, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, which banned the use of antimicrobials to stimulate growth in livestock in 2018, has plans to completely prohibit antimicrobial use for disease prevention in livestock by 2026.115 However, Viet Nam’s farmers lack knowledge of proper livestock cultivation and farm biosecurity. For example, most veterinary students go into the companion animal industry rather than agriculture, and those who choose to work with livestock work for agriculture supply or service companies. Coupled with difficulties in enforcement of such bans on the ground, antimicrobial misuse in livestock cultivation remains rampant. To tackle the need for veterinarian services, Farm2Vet is working with vets, producers and farmers to design and build an online platform to support livestock production in Viet Nam. Backed by a knowledge base developed with veterinarians in Viet Nam and the United States (US), the platform allows farmers to submit their questions to receive recommendations based on this reliable veterinary knowledge base. The platform also generates privacy-protected information on outbreaks to allow for more accurate and locally-based recommendations on livestock for farmers and producers, such as certification of antibiotics-responsible production, social learning about livestock production, and connection with potential retailers and buyers. Additionally, the data gathered is helpful for corporates such as agricultural service companies, which can now better understand whether their antimicrobial products are effective and whether there will be sustained demand for these products in future. Source: See endnote.116 Targeted Action and Financing the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance in Asia 26

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