Spain exports 40% more lambs for Ramadan
The director of the interprofessional of sheep and goats (Interovic), Tomás Rodríguez, has conveyed to Efeagro the satisfaction of the sector for this year's campaign that has focused its shipments to Saudi Arabia and Jordan, to the detriment of other destinations that were important in previous years, such as Libya.
Libya is a destination now "overshadowed" after what happened to the ships "Karim Allah" and "Elbeik": the two ships loaded with calves that left Spain in mid-December bound, first to Turkey and then to Libya, but which they rejected the landing of the cattle alleging doubts about the possibility that they were affected by the disease of the blue tongue, an extreme that was denied by the Spanish Government and the association of producers (Asoprovac).
The importance of the Saudi country is remarkable because it opened its borders to Spanish lamb in February 2020 and this Ramadan has already become one of the main buyers. The case of Jordan is curious, according to Rodríguez, because it was open "for a long time" but did not demand a lot of Spanish cattle until "it was encouraged" when it saw the purchases of its Saudi neighbors.
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