Mexico City - Mexico's Minister of Agriculture Romarico Arroyo will sign a preliminary poultry-export agreement with the US Department of Agriculture later this month, an industry group said.
The agreement could pave the way for a formal recognition by the US that Mexico's northern border areas are pest free and should be allowed to export poultry output such as eggs and chicken meat, The National Poultry Farming Union (UNA) said.
UNA President Florentino Alonso Hidalgo said “the historic agreement” was to be signed on July 20 between the two parties.
UNA has for more than five years campaigned to have formal recognition from the United States that its farm districts are pest free, but have so far failed to reach any official agreement.
“This is very important for us,” said Alonso, speaking at a news conference in the capital.
He said the agreement would establish “the basic (export standards) and the compromises” needed to implement a full-scale deal, and added he believed a full recognition of Mexico's pest free zones would be reached within a year.
UNA hopes this would lead to increased poultry production in Mexico's northern states, targeting the US market for any surplus production
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