For the first time, pork is exported to Uruguay and very soon to Brazil

Published 2024년 5월 31일

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Argentine pork company Paladini is set to export chilled and boneless pork to Uruguay for the first time, following floods in Brazil. The export is valued at around US$2,500 per ton and is expected to generate around US$125 million from a volume of 50,000 tonnes. Other Argentine pork companies have also received authorization to export to Uruguay. Paladini, which rears 12,000 sows across two production centers, plans to sell various pork products to Uruguayan cold cut manufacturers, before introducing branded products. The company values the genetic quality and lack of ractopamine use in Argentine pork, which is not commonly used in other countries.

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With the drop in sales in the domestic market in almost all categories, except sausages, the people of Paladini had a lot of motivation to go out and export. And orders immediately poured in in a category like pork in which Argentina, far from exporting; I bought mainly in Brazil. But the dramatic floods that punished Brazilian productive areas caused neighboring Uruguay, with a consumption of 20 kilos of pork per inhabitant per year, to open its doors. Thus, Argentina will export chilled and boneless pork to Uruguay for the first time. And Paladini, at the time the largest company in the sector, is also exploring and starting negotiations in Brazil. In the case of Uruguay, they are cuts that are valued at around US$2,500 per ton and a volume of 50,000 tonnes is expected, a business of around US$125 million. The neighboring country has already authorized three other plants, in addition to the Rosarina Paladini from the family of the same name. There are La Piamontesa, from Córdoba ...

Source: Agromeat