National Health, Food Safety and Quality Service (SenasicaMexico acknowledged on Tuesday that it needs more funding to ensure that new pests and epidemics are prevented, given the effects of the climate crisis on rural areas.
Representing the first Congress on Agricultural Health and Safety, the private sector represented by the National Council of Agriculture (CNA) and Senasica of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) warned of new threats to food health.
That is why they stressed the need to focus budgetary resources on the surveillance of agri-food commodities, noting that resources have been reduced to 43% in real terms for this issue of relevance to this area, export, import and national food trade.
Senasica Director General of Agri-Food, Aquaculture and Fisheries Security David Soriano explained that in 2018 the budget of this organization was 6,882 million pesos, while currently it is 5,042 million pesos..
This, he said, real reduction by 42.7%, compared to what it was in 2018, before the current state administration, including adjustments for the inflation rate for each year.
However, the director of Senasica pointed out that They have the strength of more than 2 thousand officials in this body of Sader to prevent pests and epidemics in national production, and to supervise products imported and sold in the country.
He pointed out that forums such as the first Congress on Agricultural Food Safety and Health should emphasize the importance of traceability in prevention, as he assured, “very important factor in identifying health risks and being able to act in a timely manner.”
He said Mexico currently dealing with bird flu highly pathogenic; mediterranean fly, which infects fruits and vegetables; fly agaric, which affects cattle, and paratriosis, which affects, among other things, the potato crop. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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