Brazil: Turkey meat exports correspond to [no more than] 1% of chicken meat exported

What the future holds, only time will tell. But – a fact always highlighted by AviSite – Brazilian exports in the sector have been predominantly concentrated in chicken meat. And the preponderant, in this case, can represent up to 99% of total exports of the two meats, as data from ABPA shows. About 10 years ago, turkey meat exports were much more representative than they are today. In 2013 they corresponded to 4% of the total of both meats, a figure that remained at 3% in the 2014/2016 period. But from then on, a decrease in the volume exported began to be recorded, mainly due to the separation of the sector from one of the producing companies – which led to a significant drop in the volume produced internally. According to ABPA figures, Brazilian production of turkey meat, which in 2017 had approached 400 thousand tons per year, fell by more than 50% the following year, meaning that it did not reach much more than 180 thousand tons in 2018. Although on a smaller scale, the ...