Brazil: December exports grow by 20.9% and the sector records a record for the year

Portuguese Positive numbers confirm ABPA projections for 2023 São Paulo, January 8, 2024 – Brazilian exports of chicken meat (including all products, both fresh and processed) ended 2023 with total exports of 5.138 million tons, reports the *Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) *. The number confirms the projections outlined by the association for the year, accumulating an increase of 6.6% in relation to the total exported in 2022, with 4.822 million tons. In revenue, the year's increase was 0.4%, with a total of US$9.796 billion accumulated in the 12 months of last year, against US$9.762 billion in the same period of 2022. The year's good performance was consolidated with the result achieved in December. In total, 467.2 thousand tons of chicken meat were exported in the period, a number 20.9% higher than that recorded in the twelfth month of 2022, with 386.3 thousand tons. It was the second largest volume shipped in a single month in the history of the sector, surpassed ...