Morocco receives first live cattle shipment from Brazil

São Paulo – This Sunday (26), Morocco received the first shipment of live cattle from Brazil. Two thousand eight hundred cattle were shipped from the state of Pará and arrived in the Arab country through the Jorf Lasfar port on the Atlantic coast, southwest of the national capital Rabat. Another 3,000 live cattle are expected to arrive at the same port on April 8. The picture above is for illustrative purposes only. According to Felipe Heimburger, Economic and Commercial head of the Brazilian Embassy in Rabat, the market for live cattle from Brazil was opened earlier this year. “The international veterinary certificate was approved in January, during a mission of the Moroccan health authority to Brazil, which signed an agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock,” said Heimburger to ANBA. “Since October last year, Morocco has wanted to import live cattle from Brazil because they are in a seasonal drought, and local breeding has been jeopardized. In addition, meat ...