Brazil: Chicken price retreats in January, despite high shipments

The average prices of most poultry products monitored by Cepea registered significant drops between December/22 and the first month of 2023, due to the high supply of meat in the domestic market. According to collaborators consulted by Cepea, the greater availability of protein added to the low purchasing power of most of the Brazilian population in January – a month marked by extra expenses –, reinforcing the drop in prices. Not even the good performance of exports of chicken meat, in natura, throughout the month was enough to prevent devaluations in the domestic market. According to information from Secex, the ...