Brazil: Migration from beef to pork favored consumers in October

Research carried out by the Institute of Agricultural Economics in several establishments in São Paulo showed that the amounts paid for the purchase of a kg of beef and pork had a drop among consumers. As pork had a smaller drop in relation to beef, there was an improvement in the amount of pork purchased by the population with the expenditure necessary to acquire a kg of beef. The ratio shows that, in October, with the amount spent on the purchase of one kg of beef, the consumer was able to purchase 1.844 kg of pork, increasing the amount by 4.6% compared to the same period last year, when acquired 1.703 kg. In the first 10 months of 2022, the ratio ...