It is expected that prohibitions are limited only to poultry meat and its derivatives from Rio Grande do Sul
The Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro, announced that it should review its restrictions on Brazilian chicken importation. The prohibitions are expected to be limited only to poultry and their derivatives from. Currently, Brazilian exports to the Asian country are suspended due to a case of avian flu detected in in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. “The survey by Korea in Brazil has already been done. We are expecting that they will regionalize as well,” Fávaro told journalists on Tuesday (27), after a public hearing of the Senate Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Commission.
The current embargo impacts 24 destinations, and 13 markets are prevented from receiving chicken from Rio Grande do Sul. Despite the limitations, the minister believes that the economic effect will be minimal, since 70% of national production is aimed at the domestic market. “It is obvious that a health crisis like this generates economic damage, but for 128 countries the trade is completely normal, without restrictions. The damage is not so large because farms can redirect fate,” he said.
The minister was also optimistic about the standardization of exports, providing for this to occur within 28 days. He assured that there are no new cases of avian flu from Montenegro. “After 15 days, if the virus had escaped the focus, we would already have animals dying in other cities,” he said. “If you haven’t had so far, you will not have over the next 20 days,” he added.
Fávaro believes that the suspicion of avian flu in Tocantins should result in a negative diagnosis. In addition, a case of Avian flu in wild birds recorded in Mateus Leme, Minas Gerais, will not have an impact on exports, as it does not involve birds of commercial creation. “It is a case like the other 164 wild who were detected in these two years here in Brazil, as well as those of wild animals at the Sapucaia do Sul zoo in Rio Grande do Sul,” he said.
The minister also emphasized during the hearing that the Avian flu virus has been circulating globally three decades and has been present in migratory birds for two years.
Posted by Nátaly Tenório
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