USDA: By 2023, Brazil will account for around 25% of world meat exports

Maintaining the position of world leader in the export of chicken and beef and the fourth largest exporter of pork in the world, in 2023 Brazil should increase foreign sales of the three meats. The forecast by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is a 4% increase in chicken exports (4.8 million/t), a 1% increase in beef (2.975 million/t) and about 3 % in pork (1.335 million/t). As, in its projections on chicken meat, the USDA disregards exports of chicken feet/paws, the volume forecast for Brazil should exceed 5 million tons. Regardless of that, it will be the biggest increase among the three meats, a fact determined not only by the competitiveness of the product and the strong market demand, but also by the production challenges faced by the main competitors. In this regard, the outbreaks of Avian Influenza in Europe and North America, the increase in energy costs in the European Union and the effects of the war, with a fall in Ukrainian production and a reduction in ...