Chicken and pork meat/ABPA: opening makes Panama a strategic market for Brazil

By Leandro Silveira São Paulo, 08/20/2024 - The Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) celebrated the announcement made by the Ministry of Agriculture about the opening of the Panamanian market to chicken and pork from the country and assessed, in a note, that the Central American country is becoming strategic for the export industry. "Panama is a market with significant external demand for products," the association stated in a note, citing the high tourist flow in the country, with a population of 4.4 million inhabitants. Panama has one of the highest per capita consumption rates of chicken meat in Latin America, around 54 kilos per inhabitant in 2023, according to the Latin American Chicken Institute, and with a per capita consumption of pork of 12.6 kilos/year, according to the statistics system of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Imports of these proteins are concentrated in North American countries, which have now gained competition ...