According to the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of meats and derivatives of the Argentine Republic (Ciccra), the apparent consumption of vaccine per inhabitant in January was equivalent to 47 kilos/year, that is, 3.2% lower than January of January 2024. This implies that Argentines consume 1.5 kilos less meat than a year ago.
The most alarming panorama is observed when the mobile average of the last twelve months is considered (February ´24-ero ´25), since in that measurement the apparent consumption per inhabitant was located at 47.8 kilos/year, which resulted 8.1% lower than the average one year ago. In this way, they were consumed 4.2 kilos less per inhabitant than a year ago and remains the lowest record of the last three decades.
The report exhibited that, during the first month of the year, the production of vaccine meat was equivalent to 263,800 res with bone (tn r/c/h), which resulted 1.5% lower than that generated in the first month of 2024. From Ciccra they contributed that “the least number of slaughtered heads partially compensated with an average weight rise in animal hook“, specifying that” in absolute terms, the amount offered of vaccine meat was reduced by almost 4,000 tn r/c/h in the last twelve months. “
Exports reached a record in 2024, despite falling in prices
In parallel, the work reflected that Exports of meat vaccine added 47,251 tons Product weight (TN PP) in December 2024 and, in this way, In the last year they reached the historical record of 629,949 TN PP. In this way, in 2024 11.8% more than 2023 was exported and the maximum reached in 2020 was exceeded.
In exports, The frozen cuts represented 82.3%fresh cuts, 17%, and processed meats, 0.73%. For its part, the average price per ton product weight fell 2.9% versus 2023, AU $ S492.
The report specified that “the decrease in the average price paid by Chinese buyers It was what contributed the most to the fall of the general average, given the high participation of this destination in the total exported. “However, he remarked that” the amounts growth exported (+8.6%) more than compensated the contraction of the average price. “
In that sense, he pointed out that “the total invoiced was equivalent to U $ 2,829.4 millionof which 67.1% were explained by exports of frozen cuts and another 32.5% by cooled cuts (the remaining 0.40% was contributed by exports of processed meats). “
Source: Ambito
