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Argentina: beef production down by more than 20%

11/11/2010
Figures from an Argentinean meat industry association (CICCRA) have suggested that the country’s beef production during the first nine months of 2010 declined by 21.8% compared to the same period in 2009, falling to 1.98 million tonnes.

The export market felt the bulk of the decline: beef exports fell by 48.4%, while domestic availability of beef was 15.7% down. Argentina claims to have the highest per capita consumption of meat in the world.

CICCRA’s members tend to be small and medium-sized packer companies; the organisation says member estimates on the kill is that the figures are around a million head per month throughout the country, which it says is 25% down on the monthly average over the last two years.

CICCRA says the main reasons for the decline are policies between 2005 and 2009 that discouraged livestock farming in Argentina and the harsh drought the country suffered in the summer of 2008–2009.


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