Uruguay prepared a national strategic plan for the development of the sheep sector

The local Lanas Trinidad in the town of Flores has hosted a working session in which participated several officials from the Ministry of Livestock of Uruguay by the National Meat Institute of Uruguay and the Uruguayan Wool Secretariat country.

At the meeting, sheep production was analyzed, the economic importance of the sector, employment and exports, sheep population and products, technology indicators, market conditions and the balance of the Strategic Plan 2009-2015. Present were the Minister of Livestock Tabaré Aguerre, Undersecretary Enzo Benech, and leaders of INAC, INIA and SUL.

Tabaré Aguerre Minister said the sheep sector was important in the productive and social economic history. Now, with the decline in livestock 8 million sheep “penasr must build a plan that covers a production chain, including the producer, the refrigerator, genetics, management and nutrition, always based on dialogue with private institutional coordination.”

“We discount to quickly achieve market access for sheep meat on the bone in the United States, Mexico and Canada, and then pretend to accede to the European Union,” said the head of MGAP.

The Secretary of State said that commercial access to these countries will entail an increase in value of meat and a stimulus for production which called it “noble but sacrificed” because it must compete with a thriving agriculture and issues related to cattle theft or predators.

Source: Eurocarne