Brazil awaits the return of chicken exports to China

China has not yet resumed purchases of Brazilian chicken meat – acquisitions have been suspended since mid-May, when a case of avian flu was recorded in a commercial farm in RS – but the national poultry sector is optimistic and awaiting good news in the coming weeks, according to researchers at Cepea. It is worth remembering that Chinese representatives were in Brazil in the second half of September evaluating how the country managed the occurrence of the avian flu case. Data from Secex show that from January to May, the monthly average of meat exports to China was 45,650 tons, a quantity that represented, on average, 10% of the total exported by Brazil. In June, July, and August, the average outflow to the Asian country fell to 191 tons, representing only 0.05% of national shipments in that period. Researchers at Cepea ...