Ulaanbaatar
Online system to control livestock movement and spread of infectious animal disease
Society
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On June 13, the public unveiling of a new project by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in partnership with the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry of Mongolia and Veterinary and Animal Breeding Agency (VABA) took place.
The project ‘System for Livestock Health Tracking’ will create conditions to decrease livestock theft, to report infectious diseases and monitor their movement, to notify the public of disease-free areas, and provide traders and consumers alike with the necessary information on livestock origin and quality.
"As part of the project, activities will be implemented such as creating a database necessary for controlling livestock movement, as well as observing the development and spread of infectious animal diseases. Steps will be taken to detect it earlier as well as to plan preventive actions", said L.Davaasuren, a specialist of VABA.
"Mongolia has 66 million head of livestock, but a barrier to increasing meat export is related to the veterinary certificates and guarantees which are not recognized internationally", noted S.Divangar, animal health specialist on the ‘Green Gold-Livestock Health’ project, which is also run by SDC. “The veterinary certificate does not contain sufficient information on the animal. Therefore, we are developing a system based on online technology, studying multilateral practices. The system will register all information about the animal including its vaccination history and areas where it has grazed and fed from the birth till the period of the granting the certificate.”
The system will be introduced this year in 15 pilot soums of the Khovd, Zavkhan, Khuvsgul, Arkhangai, Bayankhongor and Tuv aimags. A mobile application linked to the system has been also created. Detailed information on origin of meat being sold at supermarkets will be available through reading barcode of the product using the app. A test of the app was conducted on ‘Makh Market’ Company products in 2017.
The project ‘System for Livestock Health Tracking’ will create conditions to decrease livestock theft, to report infectious diseases and monitor their movement, to notify the public of disease-free areas, and provide traders and consumers alike with the necessary information on livestock origin and quality.
"As part of the project, activities will be implemented such as creating a database necessary for controlling livestock movement, as well as observing the development and spread of infectious animal diseases. Steps will be taken to detect it earlier as well as to plan preventive actions", said L.Davaasuren, a specialist of VABA.
"Mongolia has 66 million head of livestock, but a barrier to increasing meat export is related to the veterinary certificates and guarantees which are not recognized internationally", noted S.Divangar, animal health specialist on the ‘Green Gold-Livestock Health’ project, which is also run by SDC. “The veterinary certificate does not contain sufficient information on the animal. Therefore, we are developing a system based on online technology, studying multilateral practices. The system will register all information about the animal including its vaccination history and areas where it has grazed and fed from the birth till the period of the granting the certificate.”
The system will be introduced this year in 15 pilot soums of the Khovd, Zavkhan, Khuvsgul, Arkhangai, Bayankhongor and Tuv aimags. A mobile application linked to the system has been also created. Detailed information on origin of meat being sold at supermarkets will be available through reading barcode of the product using the app. A test of the app was conducted on ‘Makh Market’ Company products in 2017.
B.Batchimeg
