Documentation and traceability on farms: towards quality document management

Abstract

Regulation and commercial requirements are more and more important in the traceability of products and practices. This context alters considerably the way information and documents are managed in farm enterprises. With the increasing number of documents to manage, farmers meet nowadays difficulties in their documentary management. We propose in this article to identify the main documents required in the different vegetal and animal production chains. We then present the methodology and the main results of the Project " Analysis of tools and data to provide traceability in farm enterprise " and particularly the established manual. We discuss finally the interest of such an inventory to promote a quality documentary management and help farmers to respect regulations and contracts.