Peru will celebrate Pork Adobo Day: Arequipa consumes more than the national average

The first Sunday of August of each year was declared the 'Pork Adobo Day' to promote the cultural and gastronomic value of this representative Peruvian dish. In this framework, Miguel Cuadros Calderón, President of Arequipa pig farmers, spoke with RPP to detail how pig production is going in the region. "We have stabilized. Last year we had a very serious problem that has not been solved. We are working silently because contraband pork continues to enter regions such as Huancavelica, Tacna, Cusco, Madre de Dios, Apurímac and Puno, as well as eggs, chicken and other cattle," he said at the beginning. "The contraband pork enters every week in quantities of 300 and 500 carcasses of processed pig without heads from Bolivia and covers the mentioned regions and that reduces our productivity, slows down the economy of the production farms," he added. Miguel Cuadros explains that pork smuggling at the borders has decreased, but there are still actions that must be taken to eradicate it. ...