Brazil’s chicken meat exports are expected to increase 8 percent in 2016, partly due to an increase in sales to China, the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA, in the Portuguese acronym) said this week.
Online news portal Macauhub quoted a statement from the association saying that chicken meat exports from Brazil hit a record in the first six months of this year. They increased by 13.8 percent to 2.3 million tonnes.
China was the second largest buyer of chicken meat from Brazil in the first half of 2016, having increased purchases by 110 percent year-on-year, according to the media outlet.
China was also “one of the highlights” of June, “with exports to that market 72 percent higher than recorded in June last year,” said the association.
The main destination of Brazil’s chicken meat exports is Saudi Arabia, which also increased its purchases from Brazil – by 20 percent year-on-year – in the first six months of 2016.
