Venezuela is the only country in the American continent with foot-and-mouth disease

Venezuela is the only country in the American continent where there are foot-and-mouth disease problems, according to the president of the National Federation of Cattlemen of Venezuela (Fedenaga), Luis Prado. The statement was made by the top leader of the livestock sector during the first meeting of the Fedenaga executive committee in 2023, during which a balance of the situation of the Venezuelan productive sector was presented, where he highlighted the issue of the recovery of the national herd and the sustained increase in the indices of meat consumption per capita. Prado explained that "the herd has been recovering, after having fallen to very important levels; today the herd is estimated at 10 million head of cattle. Consumption has also rebounded, after in the early years of the 2000s, the consumption figures were in the order of 24-25 kilograms per capita, and that later dropped to four kilograms per capita; today these figures have been rising to around 10 kilograms per ...