The region used to account for more than 20% of the meat company, now dropping to 16% in the year-to-year period up until June. The company redirected products to Asia and North Africa.
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The volume sent abroad in July was record-breaking and increased in comparison to the same period of last year, according to the Brazilian Association of Animal Protein. Revenues in reais also increased.
According to data from the United Nations World Food Programme, food production remains well below the pre-conflict levels. Bread is 87% more expensive.
The Arab country will be able to export an additional 25,000 tons to the bloc per year. Europeans announced support to Tunisia in several different areas.
Brazil sold an amount equal to US$ 6.9 million from January to June. The UAE is the main market abroad.
Brazil’s external purchases of fertilizer declined in H1. Association reports a decline of demand in several crops cultivations. Arab countries also reduced sales.
A study done by the organization with partner institutions shows that prices should decline, but will still remain in higher levels than in 2008, when the increase begun. Brazil will compensate losses with productivity.
Egypt, Algeria and the UAE, which are among the top 10 importers of bovine meat from Brazil, increased their purchases from January to June. Egypt was the fourth leading buyer.
Brazilian crops will gross US$ 93.2 billion in 2015 and livestock will gross US$ 53.1 billion, says the Ministry of Agriculture. The former is expected to decline and the latter to increase.
Projections from Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture and research corporation Embrapa show grain production in Brazil will go from 200 million to 260 million tons in ten years. Meats production should also grow.
From July 2014 to June this year, Brazilian producers shipped the most product abroad in a single crop: 36.4 million 60-kilogram bags. Sales to Arab countries declined in the first half of 2015.
Such is the estimate from the Brazilian Animal Protein Association for 2015. According to the organization, buyers are turning to Brazil due to avian flu outbreaks in other producing countries.
The country will be the main supplier responsible to meet the world’s additional food demand in the next ten years, according to a report by OECD and FAO.
In Q1 in Brazil, 1.38 billion chickens were slaughtered, up 2.1% from Q1 2014. The amount of heads of cattle slaughtered was down 7.7%.
