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Argentina to keep beef consumption lower

28/01/2013
The government in Argentina has no wish to witness a return of the days of per capita consumption of beef in the South American country at levels of 68 kilos per year. Between 2007 and 2009, when slaughter statistics were high, Argentineans ate, on average 68 kilos of beef per year each.

A recent report from the ministry of agriculture, livestock and fish, Plan 2020, has said that the government would like figure between now and the end of the decade to stay at around 56 kilos per person per year.

With figures for December still to be confirmed, projections are that the figure for 2012 will be between 57 and 58 kilos per person on the back of slaughter for the year of almost 11.4 million head, a low figure for Argentina, but a slight increase on the historically low figure for 2011. The total cattle slaughter in 2011 was 10.8 million head; this represented the lowest total for 35 years.

Plan 2020 foresees a build-up in the slaughter figures to reach 15 million head a year by 2020 and a national cattle herd of 54 million head, rising in the coming seven years from the figure of just under 50 million head in 2012.

The plan says specifically that Argentinean farmers ought not to build up national stock levels of around 60 million head, as Argentina had in 2007, allowing farmers to devote time, space and money to alternatives to cattle.


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