March exports attain 418.1 thousand tons
10 April 2024
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Surveys by the Brazilian Animal Protein Affiliation (ABPA) reveal that Brazilian exports of rooster meat (contemplating all merchandise, together with recent and processed) totalled 418.1 thousand tons in March.
The amount is the best recorded in 2024, though it’s 18.8% decrease than the overall shipped in the identical interval in 2023, with 514.6 thousand tons (highest month-to-month quantity ever shipped within the historical past of the sector).
Complete income obtained from exports in March reached US$751.3 million, a efficiency 23.4% decrease than the comparative stability for a similar interval final 12 months, with US$980.5 million.
Within the quarterly comparability, exports carried out between January and March this 12 months reached 1.220 million tons, a quantity 7.2% decrease than the accrued stability within the first three months of 2023, with 1.314 million tons. In the identical interval, accrued income reached US$2.141 billion, 16.77% decrease than the overall recorded within the first quarter of 2023, with US$2.573 billion.
“There was atypical behaviour in March final 12 months, the one time by which the five hundred thousand ton barrier was damaged within the historical past of rooster meat exports. This creates a mistaken concept relating to the month of March this 12 months, which, actually, remained throughout the stream anticipated by the sector, remaining on common above 400 thousand tons per 30 days,” mentioned Ricardo Santin, president of ABPA.
Within the rating of the primary locations for the month of March, the United Arab Emirates leads with 40.7 thousand tons, a quantity 16.2% increased than that recorded in the identical interval in 2023. Subsequent is China, with 38.9 thousand tons (-48 .9%) and Saudi Arabia, with 35 thousand tons (+3.9%).
Among the many important exporting states, Paraná stays within the lead with 172.3 thousand tons shipped in March, a quantity 19.6% decrease than the overall recorded within the third month of 2023. Subsequent is Santa Catarina, with 94.5 thousand tons (-9.6%) and Rio Grande do Sul, with 56.8 thousand tons (-23.4%).
“Now we have seen Center Jap nations acquire much more prominence in latest months, with substantial purchases of rooster meat, in a context of uncertainty within the area,” mentioned Luis Highway, ABPA advertising director. “Typically, the world market at the moment presents a stability between provide and demand, which ought to favour Brazilian exporters within the coming months, particularly in a context of the resurgence of avian influenza in some competing nations.”
