Brazil is the world leader in chicken exports

Brazil is about to overtake. For the first time it could overtake the United States in some agricultural sectors (meat, soy, millet) which for more than 30 years have been under the control of American exporters, thus forcing importers to review their supply strategies.
 In the biennial document on agricultural production in the world, FAO declares that "Brazil will become the largest exporter of chicken in the world this year, with a load that could exceed the threshold of 4 million tons, a third of global trade". The decline in US chicken sales expected this year would remove them from their position as the largest exporter on the planet.
FAO points out that Brazil is already the second largest producer in the world in the meat sector. It has seen rapid expansion that has "more than compensated for Argentina's lingering crisis." More than 1,5 million jobs in the sector have been eliminated in this country.
Overall, Brazil's soybean production will reach 76,9 million tons this year, up from just 61 million tons two years ago. The gap is closing: this year the USA is expected to produce 100 million tons. The Brazilian expansion will ensure that in 2011 there will be an all-time record in soybean production: 464 million tons.
For Brazil, 2011 foresees a record also in the millet sector with a production of 60 million tons of which 12 million will be sold abroad.
But the growth of the Latin country is not flowing without problems. There is no doubt that Brazil will occupy an ever greater space in some of the main sectors of world consumption. But it's already starting to suffer from running out of what it produces, we need to keep an eye on domestic consumption. Furthermore, the FAO warns that the authorities will have to try to find adequate answers to the lack of infrastructure, the excessive valuation of the real and the high production costs.

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