Brazil: Chicken meat's initial foreign exchange revenue for 2023 is two-thirds higher than for the same period in 2021

Already over US$1.5 billion, the foreign exchange revenue generated by chicken meat exported by Brazil in the first two months of 2023 surpassed by more than 25% that registered in the first two months of last year. As in 2021 foreign exchange revenue for the same period was just over US$900 million, in two years it registers a variation of around 66%. Last February, a new record was registered for the second month of the year. Encompassing whole chicken, cuts, industrialized chicken and salted chicken meat, the volume exported was close to 372 thousand tons, increasing by approximately 3.5% over the same period in 2022. And since the average price registered an annual increase of more than 9%, foreign exchange revenue from these shipments increased 13%, totaling US$726.3 million. With such a performance, the volume accumulated in two months increased by almost 12% over the same period last year and totaled 781.1 thousand tons. Revenue, in turn, reached US$1.565 billion, a record ...