Effect of the incorporation of information technology in hives to ensure traceability in honey production in Argentina

Abstract

The difficulty in identifing the honey origin and avoiding adulteration of it has increase the concern of the government, public and private organizations of the sector and the community, by virtue of the health hazards that this may cause. The purpose of this reserch is to identify the main efforts, in favor to offer best traceability in the productive value chain, to guarantee the aptitude of the honey arrives to the consumer, in accordance with the requirements of government agencies. For that reason,current status on the honey production was analized considering producers, collectors, exporters,public/private association of the sector and government. As a result of the work, a model of productive traceability is proposed, which integrates the different links that make up the value chain, supported for the use of TIC (app, IOT, Sensors,software) from the origin to the end of the chain. This proposed model offers different actors of the chain access and generation of the relevant information from the use of sensors inside the hives to promote greater knowledge about the production process used, as well as having the visualization of the process as a contribution to the validation of what has been done in the different stages of the process. The use of the new technology, as guarantee of each step of the beekeeping chain, allows us an added value for the commercialization of the products genuine and natural, allowing to testify the denomination of origin of the same.