On Tuesday the South Korean government
announced plans to track beef through the supply chain. The aim is to provide consumers with data about the source of the food.
By December there’s a plan to launch a pilot program in cattle farms and slaughterhouses in North Jeolla Province. The project is a joint endeavor by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Science and ICT. The platform will go live in January 2019 and depending on the pilot’s progress, might be extended to include tracking pigs.
The traceability will include cattle rearing, slaughtering, meat packing, and sale. The aim is to use IoT devices which will be attached to the cows so that data is automatically stored on the blockchain using Bluetooth. Hence no human intervention is needed.
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