Elhordoy Paullier, representative of Uruguayan pork producers, anticipates that “for two years there will be a shortage of meat.”

"For two years there will be a shortage of pork and prices will have to rise and this will modify the meat market in the region (due to Mercosur) and probably also in the world." This was stated by Luis Pedro Elhordoy Paullier, president of the Uruguayan Pig Breeders Society, in a talk held with Bichos de Campo shortly before the official event in which the authorization of the entry of Argentine pork into Uruguay was announced. Rio Grande do Sul, in addition to concentrating around 20% of Brazilian pork production, represents the natural logistics channel, with regard to trade in agro-industrial products, between Uruguay and Brazil. With the climate and humanitarian disaster that occurred in southern Brazil, this source of supply is interrupted. The point is that around 85% of the domestic consumption of pork in Uruguay is supplied with Brazilian imports, which implies that the eastern country urgently needs to find a new supplier of the product (which will naturally be ...