Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Conducts Training to Detect Worm Sweeper

The expansion of the sweeper worm to strategic livestock areas in Mexico raises the risk of a national meat shortage, warned César Rafael Ocaña Romo, director of NexusAgronegocios, highlighting that, with the plague confirmed in Oaxaca and Veracruz, and without effective control, the country’s food security could be at stake, impacting prices and [...]

More than 60,000 producers, and at least 10,000 veterinary doctors and doctors, have been trained to prevent, control and eradicate the cattle sweeper worm (GBG), reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader).The objective is that those who are in direct contact with the animals have the necessary knowledge to disinfect and heal wounds, as well as to identify the presence of the worm in a timely manner and notify the emergen…