São Paulo – The amount of poultry exported to the Middle East increased in March in comparison to the same period of last year. In Q1 2015, the countries from the region also imported more poultry than in Q1 2014, according to data released this Wednesday (8th) by the Brazilian Association of Animal Protein (ABPA, in the Portuguese acronym).
According to ABPA, poultry exports to the Middle East fetched 120,800 in March, a hike of 4.7% over the same period last year. The main client in the region – and amongst all poultry importers from Brazil – was Saudi Arabia with 60,500 tons. A 20% increase over the same period of last year.
Last month, exports to China reached 24,800 tons, and 26,200 tons to Hong Kong. It means an increase of 42.5% to China over sales in March, 2014. ABPA’s vice-president of Poultry, Ricardo Santin, said in a statement that if taking both destinations in account together, China assumes second place in the list of Brazilian poultry exports.
Q1
From January to March, the total of 928,600 tons of poultry were exported, 0.26% lower than the volume exported in the same period of last year. Revenue in reais increased 11.5% to R$ 4.579 billion (US$ 1.485 billion). Dollar revenue, however, dropped 8.4% to US$ 1.591 billion.
In Q1, the Middle East imported 336,900 tons, or 1.5% more than 2014 Q1. Sales to Asia, second largest market, increased 2.9% and reached 278,300 tons. To Africa, there was a drop of 5.9% but the continent remained as the third largest buyer of Brazilian poultry with 117,900 tons imported.
Sales to the European Union fetched 92,500 tons (a drop of 8.3%). To the Americas, 62,400 tons were shipped (an increase of 6.1%). European countries outside of the EU imported 21,500 tons (an increase of 13.2%), and to Oceania shipments increased 19.4% to 639,900 tons.
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
