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Brazilian Q3 hide stats make interesting reading

20/12/2010
Brazilian abattoirs slaughtered 7.4 million head of cattle in the third quarter of 2010, the country’s national statistics organisation, IBGE, has said. This figure represents a drop of 2.5% compared to the second quarter.

IBGE said the overall decline was largely because of a drop of almost 11% in the number of cows slaughtered in Brazil over the three-month period; the slaughter of bulls increased by 1.9% over the quarter.

Compared to the third quarter of 2009, the figures represent an increase of 2.6% and the running total for the first three quarters of 2010 is up by 7.1% on the same period the year before.

The number of hides sold during the third quarter of 2010 was 6.4 million, a drop of 6.1% compared to the third quarter of 2009. IBGE said that tanneries for which it had information had collectively processed 8.9 million hides over the third quarter of 2010, a decline compared to the second quarter of 2010 and also compared to the third quarter the previous year.


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