La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, August 16, 2025, p. 4
Without implying the reopening of the northern border to exports to national cattle, Mexico and the United States yesterday signed an Action Plan for the control of the borer.
Subscribed by the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), Julio Berdegué, and his American couple, Brooke Rollins, the agreement includes various actions, including the regionalization of the national territory and a protocol for the safe import of healthy cattle by sea.
It also contemplates the adoption of an innovative monitoring strategy based on traps with the attractive of the fly and the application of a criterion of mobilization of cattle in national territory in pens of origin and destination certified by the National Service of Health, Safety and Agrifood Quality (Senasica).
For his part, Berdegué commented on social networks that conversations with the US government will continue to reopen the export of livestock from Mexico.
Since the reappearance of this plague in our country, last November, the United States has closed three times its border to exports of Mexican cattle. The last one was made last July 9, after detecting a case in northern Veracruz.
With this firm, for the first time there is a binational document that establishes objectives, goals, actions, budgets and technical protocols to address the chesting worm plague.
This implies the control of the mobilization of livestock, surveillance of the dispersion of the pest, imports and movement of cattle from Central America to Mexico, surveillance in domestic animals and wildlife, as well as guidelines for decisions about possible new suspensions in the future.
The Sader reported in a statement that Senasica personnel and its US peers of the health and plants health inspection service developed the action plan during a work workshop carried out from July 22 to 24 in Mexico City.
Both officials celebrated the signing of the agreement that formalizes US contributions to enable the new plant in Metapa de Domínguez, Chiapas, which will produce 100 million sterile flies a week to intensify the control and eradication campaign of the boreride worm. It is expected to be in full operation in the first half of 2026.
In turn, from Texas, Rollins announced that 750 million dollars will be allocated to build a similar plant in Edinburg, which will be located next to a sterile flies dispersion installation already announced at the Moore Air Base.
The new plant will have the capacity to produce 300 million sterile flies of the boreride worm per week.
The United States Department of Agriculture will spend another 100 million dollars on technologies while the installation is built, Rollins said in a press conference with Texas governor, Greg Abbott.
