Pork and poultry producers demand urgent measures for their sectors in Bolivia

Bolivian pork producers have demanded the release of soy imports to ensure the supply of pork in the country, according to local press, such as Red Uno on its website. In its information, the aforementioned media reproduces the statement of the representative of the Departmental Association of Pork Farmers (Adepor), Jorge Méndez, who assured that "7,000 tons of soybeans are missing monthly for these sectors of pig producers, poultry farmers and producers of milk". “We spent 10 days negotiating with the Ministry of Productive Development and we have achieved nothing. The main problem is that there is no soybean so that industrialists can process it and sell us more,” Méndez explained. Poultry sectorIn another order of things, without leaving Bolivia, the vice president of the Departmental Association of Poultry Farmers of Cochabamba, Iván Carreón, indicated this week that his union loses around 4 million bolivianos daily and that the price of chicken will rise in this district ...