Environmental control is critical to ensuring optimal growth conditions for birds in the Nigerian poultry farming industry. Temperature and humidity play important roles in poultry health, influencing growth rates, egg production, and disease prevention. Growise, a cutting-edge humidity and temperature monitor, has emerged as an essential tool for poultry farmers, offering a smart, tech-driven solution to these challenges.
This smart device, developed by Kenechukwu Ndunwa, offers poultry farmers in Nigeria and beyond a reliable solution to manage their farm environments more efficiently.
Understanding the role of temperature and humidity in poultry farming
Temperature and humidity are fundamental to poultry farming. Birds are highly sensitive to their environment, and less optimal temperature and humidity can lead to stress, poor growth, and even diseases. Chicks, in particular, require precise conditions in their brooders to thrive. For poultry farmers, especially in tropical regions like Nigeria with fluctuating climate conditions, maintaining the right environment is a constant challenge.
If these conditions are not met, mortality rates increase, and productivity suffers. Maintaining the right balance of heat and moisture in poultry houses can significantly reduce these risks, making the role of temperature and humidity monitoring indispensable for every poultry farm. Growise addresses this by providing real-time monitoring, which helps farmers adjust their operations before problems arise.
What is Growise?
Growise is a user-friendly temperature and humidity monitoring device designed to make poultry farming smarter and more efficient. This compact yet powerful tool is installed in poultry compartments like brooders or incubators, where it continuously tracks environmental conditions. The device is connected to a mobile app that allows farmers to monitor conditions remotely, ensuring that they stay informed no matter where they are.
Key Features of Growise
- Real-Time Monitoring: Farmers can monitor the environmental conditions in their poultry compartments at any time, from anywhere, via a mobile app.
- Data Logging: Growise keeps detailed logs of temperature and humidity over time, allowing farmers to analyse trends and make data-driven decisions.
- Alerts: The device sends automatic alerts to farmers if temperature or humidity falls outside the set ranges, enabling them to take corrective actions before it impacts the birds.
- Ease of Use: Designed to be simple to install and operate, Growise caters to farmers with varying levels of technical knowledge.
How Growise benefits poultry farmers
Poultry farmers in Nigeria face unique challenges, including the harsh climate, inconsistent power supply, and rising energy costs. Many traditional temperature control methods are inefficient, especially when farmers cannot be on-site to monitor conditions. Growise addresses these challenges directly. By offering remote monitoring, the device empowers farmers to control their poultry environment from anywhere, even in rural areas with limited access to constant power or internet.
Growise brings other numerous benefits to poultry farmers, especially in terms of improving bird health and productivity. By providing accurate environmental readings, it helps prevent the adverse effects of temperature and humidity fluctuations. Early detection of harmful changes means farmers can take corrective measures before they affect the birds, saving both time and money.
Additionally, the tool simplifies farm management by offering data-driven insights. The mobile app’s interface is user-friendly, even for farmers with minimal technical knowledge, allowing them to make informed decisions based on reliable data. With Growise, farmers can optimise their operations, reducing mortality rates and improving the overall health of their flocks.
The app’s real-time alerts ensure that farmers don’t have to be physically present to safeguard their poultry. The product’s versatility means that it can be easily integrated into both small- and large-scale poultry farms, making it suitable for a wide range of poultry operations across Nigeria.
How Growise has helped poultry farmers
Farmers in Nigeria who have adopted Growise have seen notable improvements in their operations. For example, Kenechukwu developed Growise after his mother, a poultry farmer faced high chick mortality rates due to poor temperature control. Since installing the device four years ago, Mrs Ndunwa has witnessed a significant reduction in chick deaths and a boost in productivity, thanks to the consistent monitoring and control that Growise offers.
A farmer in Osun state reported a 20% increase in egg production after implementing Growise’s monitoring system. Another farmer in Lagos found that using the tool to regulate the temperature in his brooder helped reduce chick mortality by over 30%. These results demonstrate the tangible impact that Growise can have on poultry operations.
The future of poultry farming with Growise
The integration of technology in farming is the future, and Growise is at the forefront of this change. By continuously gathering data, the tool allows farmers to track long-term trends, helping to identify patterns and make proactive adjustments to farming practices.
Looking ahead, Growise plans to expand its capabilities by adding sensors for monitoring other environmental factors, such as soil nutrients, to support sustainable farming practices. The future of poultry farming with Growise promises even greater integration of tech-driven solutions for better farm management and increased productivity.
Farmers interested in improving their poultry farming practices can acquire Growise by sending an email to kenendunwa@gmail.com or calling: +2348168313095.
