February 1, 2022

Slaughterhouse to be set up in Mexico-US border region to drive livestock production

A Federal Inspection Type (TIF)  slaughterhouse will be built in the municipality of Agua Prieta, Sonora,Mexico, on the border with the United States, which will help boost livestock production in the border region and add value to Mexican livestock.

Mexican Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Víctor Villalobos Arámbula, stated that the slaughterhouse will be a pilot model to be replicated along the border. This facility, which will receive supplementary bi-national funding, will reduce the export of live animals to the US and increase the export of high-quality cuts to the neighboring country, without neglecting the national supply.

The Governor of Sonora, Alfonso Durazo Montaño, explained that the design of the business plan includes private investment and the incorporation of the producers themselves as partners and the eventual organisation of a cooperative society.

Sonora has 23 Federal Inspection Type (TIF) establishments, where animals are slaughtered and meat products are cut, boned, processed and stored. The main activity is pig slaughter.

Fifteen of the TIF establishments in the state are authorised to export to the US, Canada, South Korea, Japan and China.

-  SADER(Mexico)