Brazil’s poultry production expected to rise again through 2016

Brazil’s poultry meat production for 2016 is now expected to increase by 3% in 2016 to 13.5 million metric tons (MT), after record production levels of 13.1 million MT were reached last year, according to the latest report from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS). The increase in production is due to booming broiler exports, which is mostly due to the depreciation of the Brazilian currency, combined with new market opportunities.
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