The executive president of the National Federation of Poultry Farmers (Fenavi), Gonzalo Moreno, affirmed that the department of Norte de Santander has the necessary potential to supply the local market and export chicken to Venezuela
The executive president of the National Federation of Poultry Farmers (Fenavi), Gonzalo Moreno, affirmed that the department of Norte de Santander has the necessary potential to supply the local market and export chicken to Venezuela, reported The nation.
According to Moreno, the region has 145 farms of egg production and 70 broiler chickens, in addition to three national processing plants, a special processing plant and a slaughter plant, all of them certified by Invima. In 2020, 19.6 million chickens and 2.1 million penned pullets were counted.
Despite the lack of sanitary admissibility in the region to export processed chicken or eggs to Venezuela, there is the possibility of exporting growing and fattening chicks and laying pullets.
However, Moreno pointed out that they are pending the form of payment by Venezuela, since they seek to strengthen relations with the neighboring country, which would represent an important source of income for poultry companies in the area.
For the union leader, the poultry companies of Norte de Santander managed to survive the closure of the border, adapting to the circumstances and becoming an example for the entire country. Now, they hope to be able to export processed chicken to Venezuela and make the most of the region’s potential.
On February 27, the coordinator of the Border Study and Integration Center (CEFI-ULA), Carlos Casanova Leal, pointed out that “Venezuela has to define a certain public policy to promote SMEs with the capacity to generate production for the country’s domestic market and for exporters, looking first at the intra-regional market.”
Casanova explained that “North Santander has 67,854 small and medium-sized companies, almost doubling the record for all of Venezuela, which has 43,037. This reveals that Colombia focuses its employment and labor policy on the promotion of production that feeds commercial activity, generating more employment on one side and on the other, and with this potential it faces the challenge of intraregional trade opening.
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