Brazilian pork exports grew 10% in February, according to ABPA

Brazilian pork exports, contemplating all merchandise in nature and processed, totaled 78.6 thousand tons in February, a quantity 10% greater than that registered in the identical month of 2022, when 71.5 thousand tons had been shipped, in keeping with information from the Associação Brasileira de Proteína Animal (ABPA).

In income, the rise reached 25.4%, accounting for US$ 184.9 million in February 2023, towards US$ 147.4 million within the second month of final 12 months. Already within the first two months, gross sales of pork amassed a rise of 14.9%, with shipments of 167.9 thousand tons this 12 months, towards 146.1 thousand tons in 2022.

“The numbers for the primary two months are consistent with ABPA projections, which point out a attainable enhance of greater than 10% in exports all through 2023, which needs to be bolstered by current market openings. That is the case, for instance, of the primary gross sales to the Mexican market, which had been closed in February and can quickly attain the North American nation”, evaluates ABPA’s director of markets, Luis Rua.

China, major export vacation spot

“For the reason that second half of final 12 months, pork gross sales to China have resumed a tempo near that seen in 2021. Asian demand added to the nice efficiency of exports to companions within the Americas, akin to Chile, sign a optimistic state of affairs within the exterior state of affairs and within the sector’s exports all through this primary half”, says the president of ABPA, Ricardo Santin.