11/03/2010 - 12:48
Agribusiness
Chicken exports grow more to Middle East
Brazil exported the equivalent to US$ 309.1 million to the region in the first two months of the year, expansion of 44.3% over the same period last year.
Shipments to the region totalled 197,600 tonnes, growth of 12.3% in the same comparison, according to the Abef. The Middle East is the main foreign market for Brazilian chicken.
In all, foreign sales of chicken generated US$ 884.9 million, growth of 12.2% over the first half in 2009. Shipments totalled 515,000 tonnes, a reduction of 4.13% over January and February last year.
In a press statement disclosed by the Abef, the organisation’s president, Francisco Turra, stated that “the expansion in revenues is a good result for the sector this year, as there was a 16% reduction in 2009”. He pointed out, however, that “there is still not total international financial stability.”
There was also growth in sales to Asia and Africa. To all other regions there was a reduction in the volume shipped.
*Translated by Mark Ament
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