“What
this means, for example, is that the tag which will be affixed to each animal
will be linked to its records through the passport, which is really the
animal's docket of information with data on its birth, DNA/genetic information
and health status........This is very important, especially in the context of
the provision of safe foods for both the local and export markets”
Chief Technical
Director, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dermon Spence on Thursday
September 25th 2014 at the 12th AGM (Annual General Meeting) of the
JPFA (Jamaica Pig Farmers Association) held at the Golf View Hotel in
Mandeville
The
Ministry of Agriculture has finally moved into the 21st Century!
Derrick
Kellier is now the man in charge of both the Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, so he's the one
responsible for seeing this through to fruition with the assistance of Chief
Technical Director, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dermon Spence as noted
by the Horses' Mouth, the Jamaica Information
Service in the article “All
Animals will be tagged”, published September 26, 2014 By Athaliah Baker, The Jamaica Information Service.
This
as the NAITS (National Animal Identification and Traceability System)
Initiative being spearheaded by deceased minister of Agriculture went lie on
Thursday September 25th 2014 with Biometric ID Tags available for
Cows, goats and other Animals as state in the article “Ministry
to implement animal tagging System”, published Saturday, September 27, 2014
9:07 AM, The Jamaica Observer and
“Tags For
Goats, Other Animals”, Published Saturday September 27, 2014, The Jamaica Gleaner.
This
glorious news was announced by Chief Technical Director, Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries, Dermon Spence on Thursday September 25th
2014 at the 12th AGM (Annual General Meeting) of the JPFA (Jamaica Pig Farmers
Association) held at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville. The computer software
was in place and the Biometric ID Tags were in place in an effort to combat Praedial
Larceny:
1. Cows
2. Goats
3. Pigs
4. Sheep
The
System will also help with other aspects of animal husbandry such as animal
health, identification and traceability as will be explained further in my
article.
NAITS and Animal
Husbandry – Improved Meat Quality while fighting Praedial Larceny
Most
interestingly, the process of Registering the animals and creating their
individual Passports will result in the creation of a DNA Database as described
in my blog
article entitled “NAITS
Initiative launched at Denbigh Agricultural Show 2014 – How May Pen Police will work to reduce
Praedial Larceny with Drones to come by 2017”, that may eventually lead to
the development of GM (Genetically Modified) variants of the animals.
Best
of all, it's allow the Ministry of Agriculture to track animal quality up to
the point of slaughter at the abattoir aka the Butcher shop with the intent of
developing our capacity to produce various types of meat for export by meeting
the following Food safety regulations:
1. Good
Agricultural Practices
2. HACCP
(Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points)
3. GMPs
(Good Manufacturing Practices)
Best
of all, with the Animal Passport allows each animal to be uniquely identified
once the Biometric Tag is placed within the animals flesh and not on their ear
or on their outside, where they can be removed. Thus stolen meat or animals can
thus be easily identified by the JCF (Jamaica Constabulary) aka the Jamaica Police
tasked with the recovery of stolen animals, whom I’ll refer to as the Special
Praedial Larceny Police Task Force.
They'll
be equipped with handheld smartphone or Tablets with RFID Readers built in to
scan the animal or carcass of the suspected meat. Once the tag is found and the
Database is queried and the results matched against the identity of the
suspects and its determined that they’re NOT the owners of the animals, they
can be formally charged and arrested as described in my blog article
entitled “NAITS
Initiative launched at Denbigh Agricultural Show 2014 – How May Pen Police will work to reduce
Praedial Larceny with Drones to come by 2017”.
NAITS and the Drought -
Reduced Praedial Larceny and Better Animal Yield for Export
In
the long run not only will NAITS cut down Praedial Larceny in places as diverse
as Trelawny, where the NAITS is in hot demand by the farmers suffering at the
hands of Praedial Larceny thieves, but it'll also result in Better animals with
better meat using smaller acreages of land that are hardier and can survive our
frequent drought conditions.
The
Drought has a 80% chance of continuing until 2015 due to the persistent El Nino
Effect as stated by Minister of Water, Land, Environment & Climate Change,
Robert Pickersgill in the article “Drought
likely to continue into next year, Pickersgill”, published Monday,
September 01, 2014 By Kimone
Thompson Associate editor- features, The Jamaica Observer.
Alas
he's been proven slightly incorrect, as with the sudden rains, the very same
Meteorological Service of Jamaica figures relating to the Weather that Minister
of Water, Land, Environment & Climate Change, Robert Pickersgill quoted
have changed, forcing them to declare the drought over as noted in the article
“Out Of
Drought - Met Office”, Published Thursday September 25, 2014 by Jodi-Ann
Gilpin, Gleaner Writer, The Jamaica
Gleaner.
The
Hurricane season has suddenly roared to life powered by the extra radiation
coming through the atmosphere due to the slow collapse of the Earth's Magnetic
field as we head towards a Pole Shift as predicted in my blog article
entitled “ESA's
Swarm Says the Earth's Magnetic Field is Weakening - How Weakening Magnetic
Field results in hotter Summer Days and Hurricanes in Christmas 2014”.
So
the ongoing NAITS Tagging program is bang on time. With support from the
Special Praedial Larceny Police Task Force, Praedial Larceny will be down and
animal yield will increase over the next five (5) years!
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