At 485,000 metric heaps (mt), September hen meat exports via Brazil had been the second one absolute best on report.
The country’s absolute best ever per month shipments had been in March of remaining 12 months, after they amounted to 514,600mt, in keeping with the Brazilian Affiliation of Animal Protein, ABPA. Figures quilt all hen meat, each contemporary and processed.
Now not simplest did the September overall constitute a year-on-year build up of twenty-two.1%, it additionally helped to push the year-to-date determine into certain territory.
For the primary 9 months of 2024, Brazil exported with regards to 3.92 million metric heaps (mmt) of hen meat. This overall is a zero.6% development at the scenario on the identical time remaining 12 months when it used to be simply over 3.89mmt.
“The robust build up recorded in September reversed the efficiency recorded all through the 12 months, which is now certain, and signifies that it’ll proceed to be so till December,” mentioned ABPA president Ricardo Santin.
In addition to the upper traded quantity for the month, ABPA additionally studies an build up within the moderate promoting value (in U.S. greenbacks).
Taken in combination, those tendencies mixed to present a near-33% year-on-year upward thrust in hen meat export earnings to just about US$954 million. This determine additionally represents the second one absolute best per month earnings on report for the Brazilian hen business.
For the 12 months to the tip of September, overall earnings for the business used to be greater than US$7.27 billion. That is 4% underneath the near-US$7.58 billion accomplished on the identical level in 2023.
China imported much less Brazilian hen
Whilst nearly all of main locations for Brazilian hen took upper volumes in September than in the similar month of 2023, China used to be an exception.
Proceeding to take probably the most shipments — 55,100mt — remaining month, the quantity used to be down 3.4% compared with September of remaining 12 months. On the other hand, Santin highlighted that this quantity represented a go back to Chinese language shipments of greater than 50,000mt in a month.
Different necessary locations for Brazilian hen remaining month had been the United Arab Emirates (41,400mt), Japan (36,500mt), Saudi Arabia (29,900mt), South Africa (28,400mt), Mexico (23,800mt), the Ecu Union (23,700mt), Ghana (16,100mt), the Philippines (15,900mt), and Kuwait (13,100mt).
Of those locations, simplest the business with the Philippines used to be less than in the similar month of remaining 12 months — via 4.3%. Every of the opposite markets higher volumes imported from Brazil via between 5.9% (via Saudi Arabia) and nearly 200% (via Ghana).
Brazil expands poultry genetics shipments
Now not simplest is Brazil turning into ever extra a success in the case of hen meat exports, ABPA studies that the rustic additionally generated extra earnings from shipments of day-old chicks and hatching eggs right through the month of August.
In that duration, earnings used to be up greater than 12% year-on-year at US$17.6 million. This passed off regardless of a 7% dip in per month cargo quantity to at least one,492mt.
For the 12 months to the tip of August, the country’s poultry genetics exports had been 5.7% upper than on the identical level in 2023 at 18,283mt. On the other hand, earnings from this business used to be 6.7% less than remaining 12 months at US$151.3 million.
All the way through the newest month, Venezuela used to be the main vacation spot for Brazil’s exports, taking 467mt. That is greater than 4 occasions its shipments right through the identical month of 2023, which Santin mentioned displays a duration of enlargement within the Venezuelan poultry business.