Beef consumption continues to fall in Argentina
10/03/2016
In the first two months of 2016, beef consumption in Argentina fell to volumes that would equate to 54.6 kilos per person per year. This represents a decline of almost 5.4% compared to the same months in 2015. The figures also mean the lowest-volume start to any year this century except 2003 and 2011.
Ciccra has continued to blame high prices but, on this occasion, has not made the link to tanners and hide prices, saying only that the price consumers were being asked to pay for beef in Argentina reached a peak in December 2015 in the wake of the country’s general election and appointment of a new government.
It said prices had begun to fall in January and had continued to come down throughout February.
Uruguay currently has the highest per capita beef consumption in the world at around 60 kilos per person per year.
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