Upon hisreturn from the International Sheep Forum held in Brussels and from the AnugaFair in Germany, Dr. Alfredo Fratti talked about the perspectives of meat tradefor Uruguay.
He especiallyremarked the actions that are being developed to build a Uruguayan meat brand,and in this respect, he referred to the imminent enforcement of the resolutionestablishing the mandatory nature of the identification of export meat boxeswith labels identifying the meat’s origin.

Brazilreduced cattle exports to the European Union by 26% between January and August2009, while Argentina and Uruguay increased their shipments to the Europeanmarket by 50 and 15%, respectively, according to data supplied by the EuropeanCommission (EC).
AlthoughBrazil continues to be the first meat and bovine products supplier of the EUwith 91,970 tons or 32.3% of the total volume of imports, its sales to theEuropean market have shown a reduction with respect to the same period in 2008(126,667 tons).

South American Camelids are adapted to areas where the amount of forage is limited and nutrients are scarcely distributed in structural carbohydrates that are difficult to digest. These characteristics are typical of their habitat (high plains), where there are long periods of drought during the year (usually 8 dry months every year) and cycles of dry years are frequent...