Brazil: hide and skin production down by 5.2% in 2012

07/02/2013
Brazil’s official statistics agency, IBGE, has reported that the country’s hides and skins sector registered a decline in production of 5.2% in 2012 compared to the previous year. It said the sector had been affected by drought.

These figures come in the context of decrease of 4.3% in the Brazilian livestock sector overall.