12 million hogs slaughtered in Brazil
Brazilian pig farmers slaughtered 12.62 million hogs in the first quarter of 2021, the highest performance for this period of the year and the equivalent of an increase of 5.7% compared to the first quarter of 2020, according to the results of the Quarterly Surveys of the Slaughter of Animals, Milk, Leather and Chicken Egg Production, released today by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). In comparison with the fourth quarter of 2020, there was an increase of 0.6%.
In the monthly comparison, the best results were registered for the months of January, February and March, thus determining the best 1st quarter of the historical series, which started in 1997. The month of March 2021 also marked the best monthly slaughter result of the entire survey, together with the record result of fresh pork exports, according to the Ministry of Economy's Foreign Trade Secretariat (Secex).
677.63 thousand more heads of pigs were slaughtered in the first quarter of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020, with increases in 14 of the 25 Federation Units participating in the survey. The most relevant advances occurred in Santa Catarina (+223.97 thousand heads), Parana (+211.03 thousand), Rio Grande do Sul (+126.95 thousand), Mato Grosso do Sul (+83.26 thousand) and Minas Gerais (+42.63 thousand).
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