Paraguay: Senacsa projects a 1.5% drop in cattle stock in 2022

With less than two months to close the year, the National Animal Quality and Health Service (Senacsa) projects a 1.5% drop in the cattle herd in 2022, compared to the 13,510,544 heads that were registered in the year past, which would mark the third consecutive drop in the stock. “We expect a 1.5% decrease in beef stock versus last year, and that percentage will be corrected as the year ends. There are almost 250,000 heads less for next year," Senacsa president José Carlos Martin told Valor Agro. He explained that the volume of slaughter this year "surprised for good", since Senacsa projected a drop of 8 to 10% in industrial activity, and at the moment it is 4%. "Although it is less slaughter, this drop is being compensated by an increase in slaughtered kilos as a result of a greater participation of confined animals, which are estimated at about 150 thousand more cattle," he explained. Despite the 4% difference with the historic last year, the President of Senacsa said that the ...