Mexico: Only Sonora and Chihuahua Will Be Able to Restart Beef Exports to the U.S.

At the moment, only the states of Sonora and Chihuahua will be able to restart their beef export to the United States, a country that had closed its borders to this product due to the screwworm plague, assured Veracruz Senator Manuel Rafael Huerta Ladrón de Guevara, a member of the Senate Agriculture Commission. The federal legislator recalled that this measure was implemented by our northern neighbor country after some cases of screwworm were confirmed in livestock herds in the southern part of the country, but thanks to the health and phytosanitary measures carried out by the federal government, progress is being made. "We are only working with ranchers from Sonora and Chihuahua, in a gradual process as they are lifted, there is already a Senasica report on the cases being addressed, how they are being reduced, and how we are working to strengthen the inoculation of this disease through this fly." He assured that there is still economic stability, however, he acknowledged that ...