Steady Livestock Growth Over Past 10 Years11 November 2011
MEXICO - Primary-livestock activities have the highest average
annual growth over the past 10 years, at a rate of 3.6 per cent
annually, exceeding the growth of human population of the
country. This was the message at the Eighth National Meeting of
Livestock. Livestock is one of the fastest growing primary
activities during the last decade, which is reflected in a
profitable and sustainable livestock production and ensuring an
affordable food supply, said the Coordinator General of
Livestock Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development,
Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), Everardo González Padilla. "There
is only one quarter in which the official data from the Bank of
Mexico reflected that the Livestock Gross Domestic Product did
not present an upward trend," he said. Mr Padilla González said
that out of 236 countries, Mexico ranked fourth and fifth place
in the production of chickens and eggs, seventh for beef and
eighth place for honey and milk.