Livestock exports from Colombia complete 3 months affected by competition from Venezuela

Since June 2021, the foreign trade of live animals has decreased due to the lower price offered by the Venezuelan market to the usual buyers of Colombia from Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon. Only one livestock export will take place in August. Since March of this year, exports of live cattle started a sharp decline. In that month Colombia exported, according to the statistics published by the Fedegán Planning Office, 46,587 livestock; on April 26 817; in May 13 105, and in June, only 6134 animals. In August only 4,500 live cattle will be exported to the Jordanian market and they will be zebu breed animals that weigh 400 kilos and will meet the demand in that Asian country that borders Saudi Arabia. This volume is constituted in one third of the average that the Expoganados Internacional company generally exported on a monthly basis, the most dynamic company in Colombian livestock foreign trade. "During the months of June and July, we did not have the opportunity to close deals with buyers ...