MEAT INDUSTRY SET TO BENEFIT GREATLY FROM DIGITALISATION, SAYS COMMISSION

THE MEAT and livestock sector will see many advantages from robotics in future, a European Commission official said in a September 27 debate in Brussels on the digital future of farming. The event was organised by the European agricultural machinery industry association CEMA. While Iman Boot, senior expert in the research & innovation unit of the directorate-general (DG) for agriculture and rural development told globalmeatnews.com at the event that current developments are mainly in arable and dairy farming, he said, “big changes are looming in pigs and ...


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