Brazil on track to have the world’s largest traceability system

Brazil is on the verge of making a major leap in tracing its cattle and buffalo herds with the National Individual Identification Plan for Cattle and Buffaloes, launched in December 2024. Promising to become the largest traceability system in the world, this initiative not only strengthens sanitary controls but also creates new opportunities for Brazilian beef on the global market, meeting international requirements and boosting the sector’s competitiveness.

The topic was discussed by the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA) during the Welcome Agro event, which addressed global geopolitics and outlooks for the national agribusiness, according to Agrofy.

João Paulo Franco, the CNA’s Animal Production Coordinator, highlighted that the plan was the result of a proposal by the organization together with the production chain, culminating in its launch by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) last year.

“The project will have an eight-year transition period and will be implemented in phases. From 2032 onward, most of Brazil’s herd is expected to be traced. This will be the largest traceability system in the world, alongside the international recognition of Brazil as a foot-and-mouth disease-free country without vaccination by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE),” Franco explained.