Lazarevskoe: Pigs Scale Service for contactless weighing of pigs

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2024: Pigs Scale service launch

Agroholding Lazarevskoye"" launched a demonstration version of the digital service Pigs Scale for contactless weighing of pigs. Any representative of the livestock industry can familiarize themselves with the product. Russian development has become a new stage in the development of its own IT-startup - "Non-invasive weighing." It is implemented by a subsidiary Lazarevskoye Tech. The company announced this on July 3, 2024.

The livestock specified in the demo version of the Pigs Scale application is 200 pigs or 2-4 agricultural holding machines. The back office system works in real time and online. It allows you to lay down the reporting period, see the safety and elimination of animals, the average daily gain, its deviation and the number of approaches to the feeder. The program builds graphs of weight gain, as well as the age structure of the livestock at the beginning of fattening and at the end of the period. The detailing follows the principle of "bunker," "section," "machine" and "individual parameters." Important economic and organizational indicators are separately taken into account, including legal entities, farms, employees, introduced breeds and the number of sold individuals. All data can be uploaded in Excel format.

Computer or machine vision is provided by two types of video cameras - measuring and viewing. RFID technology reads tags from animals and synchronizes with video footage via an external time source. Further processing of the received primary information takes place using artificial intelligence modules, "said Fedor Gilmullin, General Director of Lazarevskoye Tech.

Modules for weight measurement, pig identification, behavior pattern detection, porcine frame suitability assessment for weight determination and image selection to reduce input flow ensure accuracy of indicators. For example, the error in body weight data is reduced to 2.8%, which is improved by 2 times compared to traditional technology.

Earlier, we have already launched a prototype and various algorithms of the combined approach, organized automated accounting and control systems, and also successfully transferred automated systems to the existing equipment of the agricultural holding, - said Fedor Gilmullin, General Director of Lazarevskoye Tech.

The domestic authoring application of the IT company allows you to optimize the work of the enterprise, carry out preventive veterinary measures, set planned indicators, track the dynamics and build forecasts. These opportunities allow us to build an economically sound, technologically verified predictable model, which is critical in the country's food self-sufficiency in food, as well as in the labile conditions of doing agricultural business.

In January-April 2024, according to, to data Ministry of Agriculture pig production in comparison with the previous same period increased by 8% to 1.9 million tons. This provides ambitious opportunities in meeting the set goal of increasing exports AGRARIAN AND INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX until 2030. [The] pork trade started through the NTB. Already in 2024, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to increase the supply of pork and offal, as well as live pigs, to more than 310 thousand tons. All this requires stable, transparent and predictable work of the industry, - said Christina Romanovskaya, head of the Lazarevskoye agricultural holding.

The agroholding customer calculated the financial effectiveness of the use of the technology in the current herd of 55 thousand heads. The savings will be more than 50 million rubles a year. Analysts also calculated the feasibility of using the system in the conditions of its replication on the market. The technology is suitable for farms with livestock from a thousand individuals.

"and on the horizon of 10 years, we plan to provide a net present value of the project in the amount of 125 million rubles, while the internal profitability rate will be 37%. As of July 2024, more than 35 million rubles have already been invested in the project, - added Christina Romanovskaya.

In 2023, the Lazarevskoye agricultural holding, together with the Central Russian Digital Transformation team bank Sberbank Innopolis , began work on an IT startup for non-invasive weighing, as well as the development of an information system for supporting decision-making in pig farming based on artificial intelligence. In 2025, the technology should be ready for replication in and. Russia countries BRICS