Japan makes another visit to livestock farms in Argentine
The official visit continued on Friday at the facilities of one of the leading export meat packing plants, Gorina, near La Plata.
The idea of this tour of legislators and officials from Japan is to begin to walk the path towards a possible opening of that market. Japan is a large importer of beef, especially from Australia and the United States. But so far it only accepts beef from countries that do not vaccinate against foot-and-mouth disease or from regions that do not do so either. In the case of Argentine, only the Fridevi meat packing plant in Río Negro, which is located in Patagonia, an area free of foot-and-mouth disease without vaccination, is authorized to export to that country (and in fact sent a shipment in 2018). But there is little cattle available there to continue business.
Some time ago, Uruguay paved the way for Japan to start accepting beef from countries that do vaccinate. And that is the path that Argentine now intends to follow, in order to be able to export beef from the north of the country, where the sanitary campaign against foot-and-mouth disease continues. This was what Senasa had been asking the Japanese government, which has now decided on this approach.
"Today we received a delegation of technicians and important state officials from Japan in Tres Cruces on a visit organized by Senasa and the Japanese Embassy. They wanted to learn about a full-cycle livestock company with added value through genetic improvement, to understand first-hand how we produce Argentine meat, with the aim of expanding current protocols and increasing current imports. Come on, we can do it!". That was the message shared on social media by the Tres Cruces ranch, which has specialized in the Brangus breed in Luján since the 1980s.
Last June, Japanese officials had already visited the Gorina meat processing plant, and in July, the former Secretary of Agriculture, Fernando Vilella, traveled to that country and was received by Yoshimasa Hayashi, Chief of Staff of the Government of Japan. At that meeting, Argentine highlighted the priority interest in having sanitary authorization to export Argentine beef from all over the national territory.
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