Brazil follows in Argentina's footsteps and announces its own national bovine individual identification program

After Argentina announced that from 2025 it will begin to apply a mandatory individual traceability system for all cattle in the country, Brazil does not want to be left behind and will launch its own program on Tuesday 17. In an event that will be headed by the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil, Carlos Fávaro, the implementation of the “National Plan for Individual Identification of Bovines and Buffaloes” will be announced. “The main objective of the plan is to qualify the traceability of bovine and buffalo cattle through the implementation of an individual identification system,” the Ministry said in a statement. “This system will allow monitoring and recording the history, location and trajectory of each identified animal. This initiative strengthens animal health programs, increases the capacity to respond to epidemiological outbreaks and reinforces Brazil's commitment to the sanitary requirements demanded by international markets,” it added. In Brazil there is a ...