ABPA says that Brazil is in talks with UK to increase chicken exports

Reuters reports that under the current quota system, Brazil, the world's largest chicken exporter, can sell 26,800 tonnes of products like chicken nuggets and hamburgers to Britain in a year, as well as almost 41,000 tonnes of fresh chicken for processing in that destination market, according to Ricardo Santin, head of ABPA. The on-going talks aim at increasing the processed products quota by some 16,000 tonnes and the fresh quota by some 6,000 tonnes, ABPA officials said. Santin said the local companies are ready to immediately boost supplies if talks succeed. "At a moment when England faces a shortage of products, this is the best contribution Brazil can give," Santin said. The agriculture ministry did not immediately return a comment request. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on 23 September British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked him for an emergency agreement to supply a food product Britain lacks. Bolsonaro did not name the product, but said he had passed Johnson's ...