Comprehensive Beef Plan will not yield results that allow export to the U.S.: Juan Carlos Anaya (GCMA)

The federal government officially launched the Comprehensive Plan for Meat Production in Northern Mexico, a response to the closure that the United States implemented on Mexican exports of live cattle following the outbreak of the screwworm that affects the country. However, for Juan Carlos Anaya Castellanos, the general director of the Agricultural Markets Consulting Group (GCMA), this program simply will not give producers the results they have with the sale of animals to the U.S. "A good idea... but it will not yield the results" In an exclusive interview for GANADERIA.COM, Anaya Castellanos, while acknowledging that it was a good intention, questioned the viability of the project, which, in a first stage, will attend to Sonora, Durango, and Coahuila and includes support for breeding bulls, low-interest loans, and the installation of meat production plants for domestic consumption and export. "It is a plan that talks about help with breeding bulls," he described. "But they do ...