Rio de Janeiro – Chicken slaughter was up 8.3% in Brazil in quarter two from quarter one 2013, according to the Quarterly Survey of Animal Slaughter and Acquisition of Milk, Leather and Egg Production, released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) this Thursday (19th). A total of 1.4 billion heads were slaughtered, an all-time high.
Quarter two-on-quarter two, the increase was even higher at 13.2%. The total weight of carcasses slaughtered was also up in the two bases of comparison, by 10.9% in Q2 from Q1, 2013, and 10.6% Q2-on-Q2.
The Southern Region’s share of national output rose from 57.8% to 61.5% in Q2; the Southeast’s share declined from 22.8% to 19.6%. Output was up 10.3% in the state of Paraná, which is the leading producing state in Brazil, and São Paulo was the only state out of the 11 leading producing states in which production declined, by 11.4% from 2012.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
