Indonesia is about to open the market to live cattle from Brazil

Indonesia is on the verge of opening the market to imports of live cattle from Brazil and possibly New Zealand, the beefcentral.com website reported, based on information provided to local media by a senior Indonesian government official. It posted that Brazil is five to six weeks away by sea from Indonesia, has not yet been able to access Indonesia due to its history of foot-and-mouth disease contamination in its cattle herd, but, at the same time, earlier this year it declared itself free of the disease without vaccination. However, the Brazilian government is awaiting formal recognition of this status by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WHO), which it hopes will be approved in May 2025. Australia, which is a short 4- to 5-day sea voyage away, has been the sole supplier of live cattle to Indonesia for many years, sending between 300,000 and 600,000 heads of cattle adapted to tropical conditions annually. According to the text published by Beef Central, the Director ...