The minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP), fernando mattosmet with the CEO of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Qu Dongyu, to discuss priority aspects of cooperation between the two organizations.
“MGAP and FAO play as a team for the agricultural development and food security of the country”, affirmed the international entity through its official account for Uruguay in Twitter, after the meeting between officials that took place in Rome.
In the meeting, whose central axes had support for the livestock sustainability in social, environmental and economic aspects as one of the relevant issues, Mattos gave Qu Dongyu a Uruguayan national team jersey.
Among other points discussed, it was announced that the FAO will continue to support the bioeconomy issues that have been indicated by Uruguay as being of great relevance for the country.
For his part, Jorge Meza, FAO representative for Argentina and Uruguay, considered that the meeting between Mattos and Qu Dongyu is a key instance to deepen and strengthen cooperation between agencies, which leads to more sustainable agricultural development.
A trip to China to talk about trade again
The meeting between Mattos and the director of the FAO took place within the framework of the trip of the head of the MGAP to China, with the aim of unlocking a bilateral relationship that is slow, especially in terms of the negotiation of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Mattos’s mission it will last for 20 dayswhere you will visit the China General Administration of Customs (GAC) together with other authorities of the ministry and will seek update health protocols and current phytosanitary products, as well as the conditions for the entry of products of animal, vegetable and fishing origin.
For his part, the minister announced that he intends to improve access to products such as poultry meat, the mondongo, and the lemons, as well as search move forward with the procedures the allotment of sorghumand negotiate the sanitary protocols required for rapeseed and wheat.
In the same sense, from the MGAP they intend to manage the export of cellulose, grains, wool and handicrafts, as well as trying to get China to resume purchases of larger diameter wool, since Uruguay is in a problem of “an important stock in the hands of producers” to which a solution must be found.
Source: Ambito
