Burkina Faso puts RFID identifiers in the rumen of 300,000 cattle to fight livestock theft

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Burkina Faso has initiated a program to deploy rumen-inserted electronic identifiers and handheld readers to facilitate ownership verification for cattle. This development suggests that the livestock sector may increasingly rely on passive RFID authentication to mitigate theft, provided that supporting reader infrastructure is effectively distributed.

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