The Bolivian government has “great expectations” for the export of meat to the Chilean market and hopes to soon meet the conditions to finalize the sale of this livestock product, said the Bolivian Minister of Rural Development, Remmy Gonzales.
“We have great expectations. All the verifications will be made, and later we will put together the respective phytosanitary protocols because we are interested in opening the meat market to the neighboring country of Chile,” Gonzales said in contact with the press.
The Minister pointed out that he spoke with his Chilean colleague in agriculture, Esteban Valenzuela, and stressed that there is also a lot of interest from that counterpart in Bolivian products from the agricultural sector.
“We have been told that there are a lot of requirements, not only for meat but also for milk and eggs, but we are going to do that later,” Gonzales said, assessing that Chile has sent several technical commissions to evaluate Bolivia’s production.
Representatives of Chile’s technical committee of the Agriculture and Livestock Service (SAG) visited Bolivian producers in the departments of Beni (north) and Santa Cruz (east), where Bolivia’s livestock centers are located.
The National Service of Agricultural Health and Food Safety (SENASAG) also reported that it accompanied a Chilean commission in the inspection of the slaughterhouse in the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz with a view to exporting Bolivian beef.
“The National Service of Agricultural Health and Food Safety accompanied the inspection of the refrigerator located in the municipality of San Ignacio de Velasco [Santa Cruz],” SENASAG said in a statement.
