The National Agricultural Council (CNA) warned that another closure to Mexican cattle exports to the United States for the barelyer worm, as has already happened since the end of November at the beginning of February, would have serious repercussions for the Mexican economy and producers.
“An eventual closure of Mexican cattle exports would have serious repercussions, not only for the rural economy of our country, but also for the chain of meat supply in the United States, impacting the availability of products, consumer prices and the stability of a strategic market for both countries,” said the agency led by Jorge Esteve Recolons.
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“We trust that, through technical and diplomatic coordination, we will continue to advance in the protection of animal health, the well -being of producers and the continuity of trade for the benefit of Mexico and the United States,” he said.
Given the detection of the boreride worm on the southern border of the country, CNA affiliates supported President Claudia Sheinbaum and the Secretary of Agriculture, Julio Berdegué, for their responses to contain the situation, reinforce health controls and protect the national livestock sector.
The agency added that it is vitally important to keep dialogue open and strengthen collaboration with the United States authorities, “aware that joint technical work has been essential to safeguard the agricultural health of the region and ensure the commercial flow of agricultural products.”
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, asked the Government of Mexico to solve any problem related to the barrencator in cattle produced in the country.
At the end of November, the Department of Agriculture temporarily paused the purchase of Mexican cattle, after in the municipality of Catazajá, Chiapas, will find an animal with a cheap worm in a shipment originated in Central America.
“The United States and Mexico work in the application of measures to resume the normal flow of Mexican exports. These do not apply to other exports of our agriculture and are limited to livestock,” said the Ministry of Agriculture, the entity responsible for inspecting and preventing the Mexican market from being free of viruses in animal protein.
The boreride worm is an infestation caused by the larvae of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly, which feed on the living tissue of mammals, and rare occasions of the birds. Flies deposit their eggs in superficial wounds, and larvae hatch over 12 to 24 hours. Subsequently, the larvae feed on the tissue for 4 to 8 days, causing serious damage to the animal.
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According to the World Organization for Animal Health, the last time the presence of the boreride worm was recorded in the standing cattle was on March 28, 2003, and on November 22, 2024 that infection was seen again in the standing cattle that is imported from Central America to stop the increase in prices in the meat market in Mexico.
