Brazil: Chicken meat exports remain up 6.5% in 2023

Brazilian chicken meat exports (considering all products, including fresh and processed) totaled 3.905 million tons between January and September this year. The number exceeds the total shipped in the same period last year by 6.5%, with 3.666 million tons, according to surveys by the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA). In revenue, the increase reached 2.8%, with US$7.578 billion in the first nine months of 2023, against US$7.373 billion in the same period of 2022. Considering only the month of September, shipments of chicken meat reached 397.1 thousand tons, a volume 0.7% lower than that recorded in the same period last year, with 400 thousand tons shipped. Total revenue recorded in September this year reached US$719.3 million, 13.3% lower than that achieved in the ninth month of 2022, with US$830.1 million. “Maintaining current levels, driven by sales to the various destinations of the Brazilian product, exports in 2023 are expected to exceed the 5 million ton mark”, ...