From the Newsroom
São Paulo – Brazil will be exporting 50,000 tonnes of chicken to South Korea in 2004. A team from the country will be visiting Brazil this month to analyse slaughterhouses enabled to export products to the region, and to close the deal, estimated at around US$ 80 million.
This information was ed to agriculture, livestock, and supply minister Roberto Rodrigues, by telephone, by agricultural defence secretary Maçao Tadao, who is leading a Brazilian mission in Asia to negotiate the opening of new markets for Brazilian meats.
According to Agriculture Ministry executive secretary Amauri Dimarzio, this is the first time that the country supplies raw chicken to South Korea, and is a direct reflex of the cases of avian flu in Asian countries.
The volume to be acquired from Brazil corresponds to the amount that used to be purchased from Thailand. To Dimarzio, the opening of the South Korean market should generate new potential buyers for the Brazilian product, such as Japan, and Taiwan. "When other countries get to know the quality of the Brazilian product, we may become one of the main suppliers on the world market."
According to Dimárzio, the Brazilian slaughterhouses are prepared to answer to the new demands, to the cuts that have been requested. "The industry is prepared to answer to any order, but the business volume will depend on the commercial ability of Brazilian businessmen.
Brazil should also conquer a share of the Asian egg market. Singapore alone consumes around 100 million eggs per month, of which 70% are imported.
