The head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), Julio Berdegué, and the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Brooke Rollins, agreed on the measures that both governments will take for the reopening of cattle exports and the campaign against the bare -inch worm.
In a statement, the Sader reported that Berdegué and Rollins held a videoconference this day to agree on the following steps to raise the suspension of these exports.
According to the text, Rollins said “his satisfaction for the measures implemented by Mexico and requested more time to conclude his analysis”, while Berdegué extended an invitation “to a mission of USDA experts visit Mexico” to confirm “the effectiveness of the campaign against the boreride worm of the cattle (GBG)”.
In addition, Rollins communicated to Berdegué the approval of American assistance to install a new plant for the production of sterile GBG flies in the state of Chiapas, a proposal raised by Mexico since the beginning of the emergency in November 2024.
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A regionalization strategy will also begin to keep the northern part of Mexico free of GBG, “through the reinforcement of mobilization, inspection, surveillance and livestock control measures,” said the statement.
The Sader indicated that Mexico is looking for a total agreement on the strategy and protocols to stop and eliminate the GBG, ensuring that Mexican cattle exports are not interrupted by complying with the agreed protocols, which would give security to Mexican producers, importers and fatteners in the United States.
He also stressed that the livestock of both countries is part of an increasingly integrated value chain within the framework of the treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC), which includes the importation of yellow corn and other grains used in the feeding of livestock in Mexico, as well as of meat products of US origin.
Berdegué also informed his counterpart that the number of new weekly cases of GBG “reached its maximum point in mid -April and, since then, has decreased by 51.8%,” demonstrates the “effectiveness of the measures” that continue to apply.
This Tuesday, the Secretariat of Health of Mexico confirmed six cases of myiasis by barrenador worm in humans, mainly in the state of Chiapas, and that one of them remains hospitalized.
Since last May 11, the United States announced the closure for 15 days of the importation of Mexican cattle due to the propagation of the boreride worm, which concluded on May 25; However, so far the border has not been reopened.
The Mexican Agricultural National Council (CNA) assured that the United States’s decision to curb Mexican cattle imports due to new outbreaks of the boreride worm could mean losses of 11.4 million dollars a day for the country.
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The baranger worm outbreak, a flip larva that deposits its eggs in open animal wounds, represents a serious risk to animal health and the livestock economy of Mexico, which had managed to eradicate this plague in 1991.
With EFE information
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