Chicken meat prices hit a record in May

Data released on the last day 10 by the IBGE show that in May, the month in which the first case of avian flu in a commercial farm in Brazil was recorded, 575.9 million heads of chicken were slaughtered in the country, a monthly record, considering the entire historical series of the Institute, which began in 1997. It is worth remembering that the confirmation of the case of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) virus on May 15 led major trading partners of Brazil to suspend imports of chicken meat. According to researchers from Cepea, some market agents believe that the record slaughter of chickens in May may have been a mere ...