From the Newsroom<\/STRONG><\/P> S\u00e3o Paulo – The Brazilian Poultry Exporters Association (Abef) estimates that product exports up to the end of 2004 may generate revenues of approximately US$ 2.5 billion, a growth of 40% when compared to last year. With regard to the volume shipped, it may reach 2.4 million tonnes, a 25% increase in comparison to 2003. If these figures are confirmed, it will be a new historical record for the sector.<\/P> From January to October, exports totalled US$ 2.1 billion, or 47% more than in the same period last year. In terms of volumes shipped, the total was 2 million tonnes, 26% growth when compared to the first 10 months in 2003.<\/P> In the month of October, exports were equivalent to US$ 217.8 million, a growth of 44% in comparison to the same month in 2003. In terms of quantities shipped, the total was 219,300 tonnes, an increase of 39.4%.<\/P> The Middle East, the main market for Brazilian chicken meat, purchased the equivalent to US$ 549 million in the period from January to October this year, which represents a growth of 35% when compared to the same period in 2003. With regard to volumes shipped to the region, the total was 613,500 tonnes in the first ten months of the year, a growth of 21.5% with regard to the same period in 2003.<\/P> In the region, the main importer was Saudi Arabia, which imported 265,900 tonnes from January to October 2004, representing 43% of the total shipped to the Middle East.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the estimate of the Brazilian Poultry Exporters Association (Abef). If confirmed, the figure will be 40% greater than that registered in 2003, a record for the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-agribusiness"},"wps_subtitle":"This is the estimate of the Brazilian Poultry Exporters Association (Abef). If confirmed, the figure will be 40% greater than that registered in 2003, a record for the sector.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}