Demand on Sudanese cattle rises due to preferential and disease-free characteristics
19 November, 2011
Khartoum, Nov. 16 (sudanow.info.sd) –The amounts of exported Sudanese cattle to Egyptian markets have recently increased thanks to the preferential and disease-free characteristics together with break of government companies’ control over the exports there, said officials at Wady Halfa Veterinary Quarantine.
“The demand on cattle and meat products are doubling. Sudanese beef enjoys good reputation, least of which it is being are disease-free”, Director of Wady Halfa Veterinary Quarantine Dr. Osama Sid Ahmed told Sudanow.
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He said Sudan has exported around 4341 head of calves via Wady Halfa veterinary quarantine during the period March-October 2010, adding that the amounts have increased to 13265 from then to October 2011. He further noted that thousands of camels, about 17000 heads, arrive at the Egyptian borders across Shalateen and Arqain cross-points.
The official has pointed out in an interview with the sudanow.info.sd the exported amounts of calves and camels were free of disease and that they are subjected to a rigorous veterinary procedures and tests from the very beginning of the selection, up until they arrive at the exporting point, adding that there are stamps and marks to reflect the veterinary tests conducted.
Dr. Sid Ahmed went on to say that the amounts received by Cairo are not more than the %1 of the total amount which is estimated at 130 million heads, not to mention the amounts granted by the Presidency of the Republic early this year which reached about 5000 heads of calves, delivered to Cairo in April-June this year, beside an additional 20000 heads to be delivered subsequently as of current November..jpg)
Meanwhile, the Quarantines Administration at Wady Halfa experts think that several proposals they made could help increase animal exports to Egypt particularly that the actual exports have not exceeded % 1 of the total targeted national herd size which is set at 130 million heads.
Sid Ahmed also demanded increasing of labor force at the quarantines together with expanding the capacity of those veterinary quarantines to meet the increase in the animal exports in Egypt.
The export animals cross from the main port of Wady Halfa and Arqain and Shalateen cross-points to the Egyptian border where measures and veterinary check are conducted to prevent smuggling, while animal smuggling is active in Cairo via professional smugglers who use roads and passages that help them avoid confrontation with the border guards.jpg)
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Dr. Sid Ahmed drew the attention to the fact that smuggling has started to be active across the western and eastern banks of the Nubian Lake since the signing of the Sudanese-Egyptian protocol early last year, adding that the smuggled amounts included Frisian calves from farms which are spreading out throughout the country.
A number of the Egyptian importers have complained against the amounts of smuggled animals, he said, explaining that government companies used to control animal exports before the recent Egyptian revolution but presently the Egyptian private sector is responsible of the animal imports in cooperation with a Jordanian company.
According to the official categorization, the exported calves come from South Kordufan, Darfur in western Sudan and Butana, in central eastern Sudan, regions. The exported types include Nyala and Mesariah types, while the amounts of camel exports amount to around 7000 heads monthly. It takes .jpg)
the animal about a month to 40 days to arrive at the export points.
As for the meat exports, Sid Ahmed said there were efforts being made to establish a slaughterhouse at Wady Halfa town, adding that the State is setting up regulations to control the imported birds from Egypt to prevent bird flu infection epidemics with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and that the veterinary quarantine administration in Wady Halfa has started to establish a modern lab to examine the birds to ensure they are disease-free.
In the meantime, animal meat prices in Sudan are currently witnessing steady rise. Some observers attribute the hike to the increase in the export rates and the rise in fodder prices during the summer season when pastures are scarce. Still, the citizens remain the victims of the rise in the red meat prices as they basically depend on it in their food.
Sid Ahmed, however, attributed the increase in meat prices to the intervention of medium traders who have brought this matter at a time cattle prices in Sudan vary according to their type and size ranging .jpg)
between 450 SDGs to 700 SDGs.
The Saudi market, meanwhile, is currently witnessing bigger demand for Sudanese sheep of Sawakin area with an average of %90 due to the high prices of the Saudi sheep of Najd and Nuaimi areas of which the medium price amounts to around 1600 Saudi Riyals, therefore, it is expected that great numbers of the pilgrims would tend to buy Sudanese sheep, who fetch between 700 to 1000 Saudi Riyals.
Despite reduction in the number of exported sheep to Saudi Arabia during the Hajj (Pilgrimage) season, the Saudi market has been the first market for Sudanese meat exports for a very long time from among the other Gulf countries, matter which dates back to the period 1996-2003 where the highest amounts of Sudanese meat exports were imported by the Saudi markets.
The meat exports to Saudi Arabia ranged between %33.7 and %76.9, while the lowest Sudanese exported meat rate to Saudi Arabia was registered in 1997 where it was attributed to opening of new Arab markets together the increase in the demand on Sudanese meat on the part of the Gulf States .jpg)
and other Arab countries.
The highest rate, however, was registered in 2002, i.e. %76.9 when the country’s meat exports were confined to Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
There were also other Arab countries to which Sudanese meat were being exported including Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Iraq and Yemen, namely during 1998, 1999 and 2001, while meat has not been exported to these countries during 2002-2003 as the exports have been confined to the traditional markets.
In 2001, Sudan received many requests from Arab and Asian companies, including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Malaysia and Kuwait, to export meat to them.
Sudan has the ability to meet the demand on meat for more than 190 million people according to the FAO reports for 1997
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Sudanese meats enjoy preferential characteristics for their good taste and acceptability among Arab consumers particularly that they reach the consumers fresh and safe not to mention the Islamic way of slaughtering of the animals. Additionally, the Sudanese animals feed on natural pastures with less amounts of fat and above all else they are geographically closer to the Arab markets.
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