Good results are already being recorded at the state level by the pork consumption campaign promoted by the State Government and the pig farmers' union.
The head of the Jalisco SADER office, Salvador Álvarez García, said that this phenomenon reflects the change in social perception in favor of this food, in which our entity has the national leadership due to its production volume.
The state official stressed that fortunately the time has been left behind “when someone got sick, they were told not to eat pork because it hurts you. I have seen that the pigs have magnificent attention to being fed. They eat first class soybeans, first class canola, and their corn is selected, so there is no reason to revile their meat.”
Such statement was given in the context of the signing of letters of intent of the Modernization Program for Pig Farms in the municipality of El Salto, at the facilities of the Regional Union of Pig Farmers of Jalisco. This program has a purse of 10 million pesos from the state treasury, and will benefit 58 small farms.
Álvarez García also highlighted that these resources channeled to the Jalisco pig sector are another example of the priority treatment that the government of Enrique Alfaro gives to the Jalisco field, in contrast to the withdrawal of resources from the federation; unlike what has happened before when a pool of resources was formed in concurrence with the state and federal treasuries.
A pig farmer from the municipality of Etzatlán, Delia Verónica Jiménez Zepeda, commented that her farm will receive support for the acquisition of feeders, which will allow the improvement of the feeding of the animals, something of great importance at the current time of rising costs such as corn and soybeans. She added that the support was processed with great transparency.
She also argued that this resource of farm modernization comes in a circumstance in which the public opinion overcomes the false concepts that have brought a negative image for the consumption of pork. The support received will allow an investment of 200,000 pesos, of which 140,000 are from the treasury.
Another pig farmer, Mayra Leticia López Macías, from the municipality of Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, also recognized the transparency with which this program is operated and the monitoring of the use of channeled resources, as opposed to the times when resources were used indiscriminately, instead of for the originally approved objective.
This producer, together with her father on the farm, was benefited for the purchase of a biodigester with which there will be important advantages, such as in the treatment of wastewater, in addition to generating energy from biogas. The investment will be 260,000 pesos, of which 70% are granted from the treasury.
The leader of the Zapopan Local Livestock Association of Pork Growers, Fernando Guzmán González, acknowledged the support of the Secretariat for the campaign to promote the consumption of pork, which has already given satisfactory results.
The El Bien de Cerdo campaign involved an investment of 5.8 million pesos, of which 65% were contributed by SADER Jalisco and the rest by the pork union.
Pork production in Jalisco closed 2020 with almost 360,000 tons, according to official figures.
Among the Jalisco municipalities that produce pork are; San Juan de los Lagos, Acatic, Capilla de Guadalupe, Tepatitlán, Degollado, Lagos de Moreno, Ixtlahuacán del Río, Zapopan, La Barca, Valle de Guadalupe, El Grullo, Tamazula, and Mascota, among others.