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Saturday 04 May 2013


Nicaragua

Nicaragua - Getting real of farm antibiotics

The National Cattlemen’s Association has agreed to restriction placements on the parasite treatment ‘ivermectin’.

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Sunday 28 April 2013


Nicaragua

Nicaragua - Getting rid of cattle injections

Injectable drugs with the active agents Ivermectin, Abamectin and Doramectin face usage restrictions because of links with human health risks.

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Sunday 17 February 2013


Nicaragua

Nicaragua - Cattle traceabilty

Livestock movement monitoring is being stepped up by linking a computer database to an iron branding system.

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Tuesday 21 February 2012


Nicaragua

Nicaragua- Cargill to process 50,000 chickens per week

The opening of the farm, scheduled for next September, will generate 100 new direct jobs and about 2000 indirect jobs.

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Saturday 11 February 2012


Nicaragua

Nicaragua - Cargill new poultry plant

Cargill breaks ground for poultry plant in Nicaragua

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Monday 10 October 2011


Nicaragua

Nicaragua - Poultry industry problems

Nicaragua is facing an outbreak of Newcastle Disease, according to a World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) report.

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Tuesday 07 June 2011


Nicaragua

Nicaragua - Nicaragua rejects reducing poultry prices

The poultry sector in Nicaragua has rejected the idea of reducing poultry prices through the elimination of import tariffs, an idea suggested by the US government in late April, the Nicaraguan Minister of Commerce Orlando Solórzano has announced.

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Tuesday 31 May 2011


Nicaragua

Nicaragua - New meat complex

SuKarne has inaugurated the country's first large-scale, intensive cattle fattening enterprise – an investment of US$100 million, which will include feed storage, a slaughterhouse and deboning plant.In the presence of Nicaraguan President, Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, accompanied by Jesus Vizcarra Calderon, chairman of the Board of Directors of Grupo Viz / SuKarne, the facilities of Unidad Industrial de Ganaderia Integral Nicaragua, S.A. (GINSA) were inaugurated last week, in SuKarne's first investment in livestock outside Mexico, in the first large-scale, intensive cattle fattening enterprise in Nicaragua.

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Thursday 22 October 2009


Nicaragua

Nicaragua - Farmers get help from USA

Corn grown in Frederick County is helping farmers in Nicaragua become sustainable.

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Friday 28 August 2009


Nicaragua

Nicaragua - Beef exports to Russia

Nicaragua plans to supply 12,000 metric tons of beef and pork products to Russia a year from 2010, Nicaraguan Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ariel Bucardo said Thursday, Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reports.

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Friday 05 June 2009


Nicaragua

Nicaragua - Doors open for American beef

Nicaragua will allow live U.S. cattle, as well as beef and beef products from cattle of all ages, to be exported to that Central American country, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced. The agreement became effective May 5 and under its terms all of Central America, except for El Salvador, is now open to U.S. cattle, beef and beef products.

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua - Doors open for American beef

Nicaragua has signed an agreement that allows live U.S. cattle, as well as beef and beef products from cattle of all ages, to be exported there, the USDA announced.

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Jan Zandbergen        Lanexco Ltd