World Meat Market
Brazil still loses to India
Photo: André Dhandréa
The world market still expects to grow in 2018, with the growth in the
export of red meat based on information from the first months of this year,
only confirms with the production of red meat that should reach 10.1 million
tons, against 9, 8 million tonnes in 2017. A 3% advance in world exports is
expected and may be considered a timid increase with growth of 4% compared to
last year, but investors still want to dream of 4% growth not to be behind 2017.
The novelty of
the market, which is coming to the agreement of the competing countries, is
that Argentina is again repositioning itself in the world market with its
production growing again, which experts say is based on consolidating its
position among the world's largest producers, where put 350 thousand tons on
the market, thus indicating an increase of 25% over the 280 thousand tons of
2017.
Argentina has
been criticized since 2005, due to increased taxes within the country, export
bans and other occurrences.
We have the
leading countries in this market that are, Australia, the United States, Brazil
and India dominating with superiority over several years, leaving Brazil in
second place that produced 1.76 million tons, against the Indian production
that reached 1.82 million tonnes in 2017.
The market in productivity points as the world's largest
consumers the following list, first in the United States, followed by China,
Japan, in fourth and fifth place, South Korea and Russia, ending positions with
Hong Kong, the European Union, Chile, Egypt, Canada, and Mexico. They head the
official list of the world's top ten beef producers, India, Brazil, Australia
and the United States, followed by New Zealand, Canada and the European Union,
ending with Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina.
