Mexico - The swine sector begins to recover

According to reports from Mexico’s Ministry for Agriculture (SAGARPA), the consumption of pig meat is recovering from the noticeable drop a few weeks ago after the appearance of cases of the new flu A in humans in the country. The figures offered by SAGARPA show that since last weekend the levels of slaughter in the 33 Federal Inspection Type (TIF) slaughterhouses, specializing in pigs, have reached 80% of the level that they had before the outbreak of the new flu A. According to the Secretary for Agriculture, Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez, by the end of the month the number of pigs slaughtered in TIF slaughterhouses and in the 38 large sized municipal slaughterhouses is expected to reach over 470 thousand. (Original in Spanish. Read Google translation here).