São Paulo – Brazilian exports of chicken meat reached 4.1 million tons in 2018, reported the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) this Thursday (3). The volume was achieved dueto a good performance during the second half, which had a monthly average of 377.3 thousand tons shipped, according to ABPA, the best performance of the last three years. The sector managed and reduced the accumulated losses ofthe first half of 2018 – which closed with a 13.4% drop over the same period of 2017 – and finished the year with a result 5.1% lower than the 4.32 million tons exported in 2017.
The performance is partly due to the positive balance of the sector in the last month of 2018. Confirming ABPA projections, exports in December reached 352.8 thousand tons, a volume 9.9% higher than the 321.1 thousand tons shipped during the same period of 2017.
The annual revenue of poultry exportation sector was USD 6.571 billion, a value 9.2% lower than the total in 2017. The good sales performance in in December ensured a 11.3% rise for the month over the same period of 2017, with sales reaching USD 581.4 million.
“We expect the good flow obtained during the second half of last year to remain in 2019, thanks to, among other reasons, the actions the productive sector is going to adopt with Projeto 500K – leaded by ABPA – which aims to reach a monthly average of 500,000 tons in exports of poultry and pork meat until the end of 2020,” reported the association chairman Francisco Turra in the press release.
Translated by Guilherme Miranda