The National Health, Safety and Agrifood Quality Service (Senasica) reported that the United States gave 2 billion sterile flies to stop the propagation of the barely worm, a plague that put at risk the production of beef in Mexico in the last months.
“The United States Department of Agriculture gives us all the sterile fly, all the liberation of the fly (sterile to stop the bare -bare worm),” said Francisco Javier Elizalde, general director of the agency.
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He reiterated that the sterile fly does not have a cost for Mexico, because it worked under a principle of cooperation with the United States government.
Currently, the only plant that exists for the production of sterile flies to reduce the borer worm is operating in Panama.
Mexico does not produce sterile flies, “but the time will come that we will have more precise costs, but they are very profitable expensive technologies,” said the official.
“With a sterile flies factory we avoid many losses to farmers,” said the person in charge of health surveillance in Mexico.
“Under the principles of cooperation we do not sell flies, but rather we collaborate and we see how we coordinate strategies to avoid infestation,” he said.
A control of the sterile fly in Mexico is a barrier so that it does not reach the United States, he explained at the end of the campaign launch Apapachratewhich seeks to increase potato consumption in the Mexican market the following year.
“It is also of interest from the United States to work with Mexico to avoid dispersion to the north of the borer worm,” he said.
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The Government of Mexico has invested around 200 million pesos “and we will continue to invest, because we have to continue strengthening the infrastructure,” he said.
He said yesterday began with the rehabilitation of the factory to produce sterile fly, which combats the borer worm in North America and Central America.
“And our expectation is in a year to have the new completely operational plant,” he said.
“We are going to produce, we are innovating with some technologies so our expectation is to produce between 60 million to 100 million pulps (sterile fly) a year,” he added.
‘There is control of the barage worm ‘
“The boreride worm is controlled in the southeast region of Mexico, we have no cases in the downtown or in the northern zone,” he added.
“We have about 3 thousand cases of accumulated bullial worm since the first detection we had on November 21 last year,” he said.
He declared that currently the active cases of a browser worm are between 260 and 270, that is to say that in the last 15 days animals were reported that had some glaze.
“Every time there is a bowering worm report, the technicians go to cure that cattle, so we have not had any animal that has died. The animals, from the first animal to the last animal, all are alive, are healthy,” he said.
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“Today the producers are happy and trained, as they are notifying the presence of the Barrenador worm, a disease that for more than 30 years had no presence in Mexico. We have already begun to see that producers begin to cure their cattle, begin to report and I think that helps us to their fight,” he said.
