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The Mexican meat industry has recorded an increase in production. In September this year beef, pork, and poultry exports increased by 17.3 percent compared to the same month in 2018, according to the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Víctor Villalobos Arámbula.
He stated that with the responsible participation of authorities and the contribution of Mexican livestock producers, progress is being made toward achieving self-sufficiency in animal protein and, thus, ceasing to depend on other countries for importing poultry and pork, as well as milk.
Villalobos said that livestock contributes to more than 40 percent of the value of the country's food production and helps make Mexico the seventh largest producer of animal protein in the world, fourth in eggs, fifth in chicken, sixth in veal, eighth in honey and fourth in feed production.
He stressed that the National Service for Agri-Food Health, Safety and Quality (Senasica) will receive an appropriate budget for 2020, thus guaranteeing and safeguarding the health and safety of the livestock sector, maintaining the health status of Mexico, which is among the five countries recognized by the World Organization for Animal Health as free of the six animal diseases with the highest health and commercial impact.
Friday, December 6, 2019/ Secretary of Agriculture/ Mexico.
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