Rio de Janeiro – Brazil’s milk production grew by 8.2% in Q2 this year from the same period last year. A total of 5.76 billion litres of milk were processed in this period, according to the Quarterly Survey of Animal Slaughter and Milk, Leather and Egg Production, released this Thursday (18th) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The volume, however, decreased by 6.6% in Q2 from Q1.
The survey also showed that 694.3 million dozens of eggs were produced in Q2 this year, up 2% from the same period last year and up 1% from Q1 this year. In Q2 from Q1 2014, both the Southeast and Northeast regions’ shares of the national output of eggs increased, while the other regions’ production declined.
*Translated by Rodrigo Mendonça
