Brazil: Purchasable volume of chicken at producer level, wholesale, and retail

Published 2022년 11월 29일

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The article discusses the impact of the pandemic on food prices in São Paulo, Brazil, comparing them to pre-pandemic levels in 2019. It highlights an increase in the price per kilogram of ox and chicken, with a peak in 2020 and a slight decrease in 2021, but overall prices remain higher than in 2019. Beef prices, based on chilled whole chicken, have seen similar trends. In retail settings, the quantity of chilled chicken purchased per kilogram has varied but remains higher than in 2019, indicating a change in consumer spending patterns amidst the economic effects of the pandemic.

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Effectively, it has been lower than that recorded in the first two years of the pandemic. But it is still higher than that recorded in the pre-pandemic year, 2019. Well, then, the price reached by the ox (at sign converted into kilograms) corresponded to 3.39 kg of live chicken, a volume that rose to 4.13 kg in 2020, but it fell back to 3.88 kg in 2021 and now stands at 3.67 kg – close to 8.5% more than in 2019. A similar situation is observed in the wholesale market when taking the price of front beef and chilled whole chicken as references. Thus, the price reached by the beef front corresponded to 2.13 kg of chilled chicken in 2019, 2.86 kg in 2020, 2.55 kg in 2021 and now 2.48 kg. In 2022, therefore, 16% more chicken meat than in 2019. In retail in the city of São Paulo (data from Procon-SP), at the price of 1 (one) kilogram of chuck, the São Paulo consumer purchased, in 2019, ...

Source: Portal Do Agronegocio