The United States Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, said Thursday that Mexico has not implemented adequate protocols to curb the propagation of the New World Barrenader, a sign of tension between the two countries while sailing the march north of the plague.
Rollins attributed the recent detection of a browser worm to less than 113 kilometers from the border with the United States to the failure of Mexico to curb cattle movements and tend flies for flies aimed at reducing the wild population of flies of the borer worm, which infest and can kill the cattle if they are not treated.
The boreride worm has not yet crossed the US border, according to the authorities, but represents a multimillion -dollar risk for the American meat industry. The United States has maintained its border practically closed to Mexican cattle imports since May.
The outbreak has increased tensions between countries before a planned review of the trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada and shaken its livestock and beef sectors.
The United States Department of Agriculture said on September 21 that it learned of the case in Nuevo León, which limits with Texas.
In a matter of hours, the USDA had sent personnel to the region, Rollins said Thursday at the Forum of Agricultural Perspectives in Kansas City, Missouri.
Unfortunately, we discover that Mexico has not implemented adequate controls for the movement of cattle in the infected regions and is not cleaning the flies for flies daily as promised, which makes our capacity for real -time detection difficult. This is unacceptable, said Rollins.
He said that the reopening of the border to the cattle trade is conditioned to the total compliance with the agreed surveillance protocols.
The spokesmen of the Secretary of Agriculture of Mexico and President Claudia Sheinbaum did not immediately respond to comments requests.
Sheinbaum said Wednesday that Mexico had not been notified, by the USDA of any change in the expectation that the United States will reopen its border before November and that controlling the movement of cattle within Mexico is complicated.
The United States has invested 21 million dollars in an installation in southern Mexico to produce sterile flies that are released to reduce the reproductive population of wild flies.
The Trump administration seems to have misunderstood the available evidence.
With Reuters information.
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