Brazil: Partial, chicken meat shipments in March already surpass numbers from January, February, and a year ago

In January, 388 thousand tons; in February, 373 thousand tons; In current March, with five working days left before the end of the month, shipments of fresh chicken meat stood at 397 thousand tons. Maintaining the current performance, they should exceed 500 thousand tons, a monthly volume unprecedented in the history of the sector. The total recorded in the past week (19 to 25, five business days) suffered a slight deceleration in volume. Even so, it remained at a level that represented, for the first 18 working days of the month, daily shipments even higher than 22 thousand tons, also a record in chicken meat exports. The average price also continues to present a slight deceleration, as the value reached so far – US$1,874.80/ton – is 0.68% below that registered in February. But it remains about 3% above the registered a year ...