December exports generated US$818.9 million in gross sales
17 January 2024
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Brazilian hen meat exports, together with all merchandise, each contemporary and processed, ended 2023 with whole exports of 5.138 million tons, in response to a latest market report from the Brazilian Animal Protein Affiliation (ABPA). The quantity confirms the projections outlined by the affiliation for the 12 months, accumulating a rise of 6.6% in relation to the entire exported in 2022, with 4.822 million tons.
In income, the 12 months’s enhance was 0.4%, with a complete of US$9.796 billion gathered within the 12 months of final 12 months, in opposition to US$9.762 billion in the identical interval of 2022.
The 12 months’s good efficiency was consolidated with the outcome achieved in December. In whole, 467.2 thousand tons of hen meat have been exported within the interval, a quantity 20.9% increased than that recorded within the twelfth month of 2022, with 386.3 thousand tons. It was the second largest quantity shipped in a single month within the historical past of the sector, surpassed solely by the 514.6 thousand tons exported in March 2023.
Because of this, income generated by exports in December totalled US$818.9 million, 4.3% increased than the US$785 million obtained in the identical interval in 2022.
“Regardless of the challenges of the 12 months, together with a situation with marked variations in markets and manufacturing prices, the result’s extremely constructive and confirms the projections outlined by ABPA for the 12 months, whereas on the similar time indicating the export pattern that we should always observe all through 2024.,” mentioned Ricardo Santin, president of ABPA. “For the primary time we surpassed the mark of 5 million tons exported. On this context, the excellent news launched on the finish of 2023 brings expectations of a sustained motion in worldwide gross sales, whether or not in relation to consolidated markets and even with the opening of latest ones.”
In December, Japan took the lead as the primary vacation spot for hen meat exports from Brazil, with 55,900 tons imported, a quantity 53.9% increased than the entire recorded in the identical interval of 2022. In second place, China imported 50.3 thousand tons (+8.5%), adopted by the United Arab Emirates, with 44.3 thousand tons (+27%), Saudi Arabia, with 39.5 thousand tons (+56.3%) and Africa from the South, with 31.2 thousand tons (+10.8%).
“There was a normal enhance in hen meat imports by the primary locations of our merchandise, which justifies the document efficiency for the month of December,” mentioned Luís Rua, ABPA’s markets director.
The biggest exporter of hen meat in Brazil, Paraná shipped 2.087 million tons all through 2023, a quantity that exceeds the entire exported within the earlier 12 months by 9.69%. Subsequent are Santa Catarina, with 1.103 million tons (+8.48%), Rio Grande do Sul, with 739 thousand tons (-2.13%), São Paulo, with 292.6 thousand tons (+6.32 %) and Goiás, with 236.8 thousand tons (+21.3%).
“Within the 12 months through which we recorded the primary outbreak of Avian Influenza in wild birds in Brazil, the outcomes obtained by means of exports attest to the world’s confidence within the wonderful work in biosecurity carried out by firms within the sector, with the help of the Ministry of Agriculture and the secretariats state and municipal agriculture, which allowed the nation to stay free from avian influenza”, concluded Santin.
