According to the Brazilian news site IG.com.br, Brazil is on its way to topping the U.S. as the top poultry exporter around the world. For more than 30 years, solely US-based companies have dominated the agricultural sectors and this has now obliged other importers to reexamine their strategies.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released figures on June 7 that show Brazil occupying first place as poultry exporter and, as a result, it would dominate one-third of the global trade.
In the meat industry, Brazil currently stands in second place, but its related expansion in the industry, according to the FAO, “has been facilitated by the persistence decrease in Argentina.” The neighboring country has already seen 3,500 job eliminations.
The FAO notes that this increase in poultry exports would urge the Brazilian government to improve its infrastructures to take-on the necessary capacity. Yet, in its bi-annual report on global agriculture, the FAO suggests that the national authorities closely examine the anticipated production costs for the coming years.
The FAO does recognize that such factors, as the Russian prohibition of Brazilian meat imports, can seriously affect its expansion.
However, the organization anticipates that exports should be increasing in 2011, after three years that the national consumption decreased.
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