With cattle exports ending, new business opportunities are opening up for Mexico

He mentioned that before the border was closed, cattle were exported to the US where they were fattened, slaughtered and the MEAT shipped as cuts, with the added value benefiting the neighbouring country to the north. This now represents a business opportunity that needs to be taken advantage of.

"All of these mistakes create jobs; everything that happens in Mexico creates market opportunities. For example, Mexico exports calves to the U.S. for fattening, and the cuts are shipped from the U.S. to Mexico. Now there is an opportunity for those cattle that are not exported to be fattened in Mexico," he explained.

He commented that the bad news about EXPORT restrictions should be seen as an option to create economic growth and employment, and that in the case of Sinaloa, there is the potential to fatten 500,000 calves per year. There are four federal inspection slaughterhouses (TIF) in Culiacan and another in Guasave, which provides sufficient infrastructure for processing livestock.

He stated that there are TIF slaughterhouses with hieroglyphs or cold rooms and enough work tables to prepare livestock cuts and export them to a country where feed is in demand, without depending on foreign countries.

He called it positive that the Mexican government had taken action to address the problem by closing the southern border, thereby ending the smuggling of cattle from Central America through which the blowfly had entered.

 He said that attention must be paid to animal HEALTH issues as failure to do so would result in losses to the livestock sector and to the government as diseases arise that require resources to combat and eradicate, such as tuberculosis,brucellosis and blowfly.