Brazil reduces its herd size
27/06/2008
Cattle slaughter in Brazil, the world’s biggest beef exporting country, fell by 10% in the first quarter of the year after the European Union banned most imports. The Brazilian government has also reported that herd-size has shrunk.
Brazilian abattoirs slaughtered 7.2 million head of cattle in the quarter, down from almost 8 million a year earlier, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IGBE) said on June 27. Hog and poultry slaughtering rose.
The EU, which bought a quarter of Brazil’s red meat in 2007, banned most of the imports this year because of concerns about foot and mouth disease.
Poultry processors in Brazil, the biggest exporter, slaughtered 1.18 billion birds, up 12% from 1.06 billion a year earlier, said the IBGE, as the statistics agency is known.
Hog slaughtering rose 2.7% to 6.8 million animals from 6.6 million in the first quarter of 2007.
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