Information systems

INAC was created with a view to provide precise and up-to-date information about industrial and trading activities of the national meat chain. At that time, in the late sixties, several institutional initiatives aimed at knowing Uruguay better as a country, in order to achieve a harmonic development that combines its agricultural vocation with the necessary industrialization of products.

Times were difficult at first; results were modest when there were no computers and working with data demanded strong efforts, both on the part of companies and of the part of INAC.

Throughout the years, the task has improved little by little thanks to the efforts of the authorities, who understood its importance, and to technicians who have devoted efforts and skills to the ongoing improvement of data.

*taken from the prolog by Luis Alfredo Fratti, President of INAC in the book INAC  30 years of information. 1977 - 2006.

Average value of the standard steer index.

Amongst its essential duties, INAC must promote coordination mechanisms among the links of the meat chain to find business alternatives that add value to products. It is with this purpose that INAC publishes the average value generated after the industrial process by a standard Uruguayan steer- British breeds and its cross breeds.

 SEIIC. Electronic Information System for the Beef Industry.

Uruguay is the first country in the world to implement an electronic information system at slaughter plants, managed by the advising body on meat policy integrated by the Executive Power, and representatives of farmer and processor unions.

Through digital scales, computers and other devices, data gathered at plants are registered and transmitted to INAC.