Shepherd App

Shepherd is a digital livestock management platform built for smallholder farmers managing cattle, sheep, and goats across South Asia. It replaces paper records and farmer memory with a simple mobile interface for tracking animal weight, milk yield, health events, and breeding records.

Livestock is the primary asset class for millions of smallholder households in Pakistan and Bangladesh — but the management of that asset was entirely informal. No records meant no credit, no insurance, no market data, and no early warning on disease. The gap between farm-level practice and what institutional buyers or financial institutions required was unbridgeable without a tool.

Esipick.org built Shepherd as a farmer-first mobile product — optimized for use on low-end Android devices with intermittent connectivity, in a UI that doesn't require literacy to navigate. The backend aggregates herd-level data for extension workers, veterinarians, and lenders.

Shepherd demonstrates that meaningful agricultural data can be generated at the farm level without imposing literacy, connectivity, or tech-savviness requirements on the farmer — opening pathways to credit, insurance, and premium market access.

The smallholder farmer — managing less than two hectares, often without formal land title, dependent on rainfall and local input dealers — is both the backbone of South Asian food production and the p…

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