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Brazilian Pork Production Challenges and Opportunities -Banff 2016
Posted in: Economics, Pork Insight Articles by admin on May 3, 2017
From 1960 to 2013 meat production of beef, chicken and pork in Brazil has risen by 1,363 percent.
Traceability is seen as a competitive requirement and is mandatory for the companies handling and processing food products. This is essential because of the direct link to risk, the traceability system “must be able to connect all the links in the chain with the ability to trace back from consumer to farmer,” says Cinara Milanez Shibuya Batista.
Management of disease outbreaks is of significant importance in Brazil. The country has a national swine health program to control, notify and action in cases related to pork production. Because of foot and mouth (FMD) issues in the last few decades in both swine and beef animals, Brazil has yet to regain access to some lost export markets. Because of this Brazil has adopted an extensive biosecurity program and places great importance on transparency and reliability within the system.
The country operates on a closed loop system. Its goals are to ensure better sanitary control, more income stability for the producer and income creation in rural areas.
The new measures appear to be working. In the last 15 years, Brazil has boosted its exports of pork by more than 600 per cent and has increased pork production by 40 per cent primarily in its southern states. This makes Brazil the fourth largest producer and exporter in the world exporting about 500k tonnes and making up about eight per cent of global pork exports.
Brazilian Pork Production Challenges and Opportunities -Banff 2016