"It diversifies the risk and expands the opportunities," said the Secretary of the Presidency, Ãlvaro Delgado, who valued that since March 2020 there are 35 new markets open and 12 in process.
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The chief also specified that from January to September the sector exported 595 million dollars, 28% more than in the same period of 2021, and 7% more in volume. Algeria, Brazil and China are the main markets.
Also attending the activity, this Tuesday, November 1 in Montevideo, were the minister and undersecretary of the Ministry of Livestock, Fernando Mattos and Juan Ignacio Buffa, respectively, and the president of the National Milk Institute, Juan Daniel Vago.
Mercoláctea is a fair with exhibitions that will arrive in Uruguay from June 1 to 3, 2023, on the premises of the Rural Association of Uruguay. The event, declared of national interest by the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, will present a variety of proposals for all those who are part of the Uruguayan and regional dairy sector.
On the occasion, a livestock exhibition will be held with the three main dairy breeds (Holland, Norman and Jersey), training seminars with prominent local and international speakers, technical tours for foreign and national visitors, business rounds and trade shows, among others. activities.
Ãlvaro Delgado valued that the event will allow demonstrating the technological, genetic and productive capacity of the Uruguayan dairy. "We need to generate agricultural awareness and demonstrate what impacts this sector economically and socially," he said.
The chief estimated that Uruguay will export some 14.5 billion dollars this year and compared that in 2021 that figure stood at 11.55 billion. In this sense, he specified that 8 out of 10 products come from the agro-industrial sector and that the main dairy product that Uruguay exports, whole milk powder, increased prices at the international level by 5%.
He also explained that the Government is working to maintain the productivity of smaller dairy cooperatives and to ensure that the number of producers does not decrease.
Fernando Mattos, for his part, stressed that the dairy chain requires technology, nutrition, training, animal health, environmental care in the treatment of effluents in dairy farms and opening of markets, as tools to improve productivity. "It is an important chain economically and socially, from family to industrial," he specified.
On the occasion, he assured that Uruguay is the largest exporter of dairy products in Latin America and that it managed to diversify its placement with special emphasis on Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Mercosur.
In this sense, he maintained that he expects a growth in exports to Japan, a country that annually imports more than 1,000 million dollars in the purchase of cheese from different countries. ■