Mexico City, (EFE) .- Mexico resumed the export of livestock to the United States, with the crossing of 882 heads, after two months of closing due to the crisis of the boreride worm.
“They already crossed the first head of cattle to the United States from Agua Prieta, Sonora, are about 900. This progress is the result of the joint work to regularize livestock trade and reinforce actions against the bowering worm in the south and southeast of the country,” said the head of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) of Mexico, Julio Berdegué.
A week ago, Agriculture of the United States made the decision to reopen, in a staggered way, the border as of July 7 for Mexican livestock, bison and horses, which remained closed since last May 11 before the expansion of this plague in Mexico.
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The first border port that was reopened was that of Douglas, in the state of Arizona, neighboring the Mexican State of Sonora (Northwest).
Previously, Berdegué published that between June 24 and July 6, the number of active cases of the cattle boreworm had fallen by 22.7%
“We do not trust or believe that the problem is already solved, but these results indicate that things are being done well,” he said.
Meanwhile, the governor of Sonora, Alfonso Durazo, pointed out in X: “Today we resume the export of cattle to the United States from Agua Prieta (Sonora) with the crossing of the first 882 heads, fulfilling all the sanitary protocols and keeping us as a national example of animal health.”
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After the decision, on July 1, a bilateral technical meeting was held between the Health and Vegetable Health Inspection Service (ABHIS) and the National Health, Safety and Agrifood Quality Service (Senasica) of the Government of Mexico, to follow up on the agreements between Berdegué and Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States (USDA, in English).
According to the calendar released by Washington, after Douglas, he will follow the port of Columbus, in Nuevo Mexico, on July 14, and then that of Santa Teresa, also in Nuevo Mexico, on July 21. Subsequently, they will be reopened from Rio and Laredo, both in Texas, on August 18 and September 15, respectively.
On Monday, the Mexican Council of Meat (Comecarne) said that following the border closure, Mexico began to import meat from countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Australia to deal with lower production in the United States and the effects of the cheap worm.
Res beef was impacted by the outbreak of the boreride worm, which caused the suspension of live cattle exports to the United States, with losses estimated at 700 million dollars (about 600 million euros).
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