São Paulo – The Brazilian Poultry Union (Ubabef, in the Portuguese acronym) informed this Monday (8th) that chicken exports reached US$ 632.7 million in September, down 3.4% from the same month of last year. Shipments amounted to 305,700 tonnes, up 0.4% using the same basis of comparison.
Year-to-date as of late September, revenues from foreign sales reached US$ 5.616 billion, down 6.9% from the same period last year. Volume-wise, 2.922 million tonnes were exported, up 0.9% from the same period in 2011.
According to a Ubabef press statement, its president Franciso Turra said maintaining the volume shipped is key to sustaining the industry. Brazilian poultry farmers claim to be experiencing the worst crisis ever as a result of hiking prices for inputs such as maize and soy, which are used as animal feed.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
