Affected by foot-and-mouth disease, Argentina's beef exports in the first quarter decreased 80% year on year

Lead: Buenos Aires (Reuters) - due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, several major export markets of Argentine beef have announced their closure, resulting in an 80.2% drop in beef exports in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period last year, according to ciccra, a group of beef export industries in Argentina Ciccra said that the total value of Arab beef exports in the first quarter of this year was US $25.5 million, a 77.2% decrease over the same period last year, although the price of beef in the international market has increased by 14.8% since this year Argentina is the second largest beef exporter in South America, but since Argentina officially announced the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in March last year, a total of 70 countries have stopped importing beef from Argentina, including the main export markets of beef from Argentina such as the European Union, the United States and Canada Since last year, Argentina's veterinary authorities have implemented a massive vaccination program, which has vaccinated 52 million beef before and after In February this year, Argentina finally gained the re opening of markets such as the European Union, Israel, Brazil and Bulgaria to its beef But countries such as Canada and Chile still have not lifted the ban Ciccra said that the recovery of some export markets, as well as the favorable factors brought by the devaluation of the Argentine Peso since January this year, have promoted the export of Arab beef Argentina's government, which has been suffering from a four-year recession, also hopes to boost its economic recovery by expanding exports According to ciccra's report, the reopening of the European Union and Israeli markets is a great encouragement for the Argentine beef export industry Although only four markets have lifted the ban, it is the start of a resurgent beef industry in Argentina In Argentina, 14100 tons of beef were exported in the first quarter, of which Germany accounted for 30.5%, followed by the United Kingdom, accounting for 20.8%, followed by the Netherlands, Brazil and Italy The cicca also added that the data in the report are from government sources and that a number may change with official revisions (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: