President Claudia Sheinbaum reported on Tuesday that her government works with US authorities to advance the reopening of the border to Mexican cattle, whose export remains suspended by the plague of the chesting worm, and that the United States plans to reactivate in November.
Sheinbaum explained in his conference, in the National Palace, that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) maintains direct conversations with its counterpart in Washington to reduce the deadline raised by the US before the threat of the boreride worm.
“The United States Ministry of Agriculture raised November, but Sader is working with them (…) so that it can be before,” said the president.
Sheinbaum framed the importance of this process with programs to increase domestic production, since the closure directly affects the livestock producers of the northern states of the country, whose economy depends largely on the sale of cattle standing to the US market.
Mexico is one of the main suppliers of bovine cattle to the United States, with exports that exceed one million heads a year.
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Sheinbaum says that a loss support scheme was made in livestock sector
Until now, the industry calculates losses for 1.3 billion dollars, indicate data from the National Agricultural Council (CNA), which has reported the interruption of the shipment to the northern neighbor of at least 650,000 head of cattle due to the closure generated from the proliferation in the Mexican southeast of the Barrenador worm.
At the same time, Sheinbaum explained that his government designed an support scheme to mitigate the economic impact of closure, in force since the beginning of July.
“It is essentially a request that they had for a long time. Instead of exporting, it is sought to occur in Mexico, particularly now with the closure of the border,” he said.
The program, initially aimed at farmers in Sonora, Coahuila and Durango, contemplates resources for 2,181 million pesos (about 109 million dollars), of which about 600 million (30 million dollars) will be provided directly by the federal government as a non -refundable investment.
The rest will be integrated with contributions from states and credits for animal fattening and the construction of production centers.
Sheinbaum said that the delivery of credits will begin next week and stressed that the objective is to boost self -sufficiency in the national meat production.
With EFE information
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