He National Meat Institute (Inac) of the Uruguay obtained a 21.5% decrease in slaughter compared to the last year, while exports of beef also fell by 23.6%, being Chinahe United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and the European Union the main most relevant markets.
Inac published its report for the 2022/2023 agricultural year, which resulted in a 21.5% drop in the task compared to the last exercise from 2021/2022. With the year ended on June 30 of this year, the slaughtered heads were 2,154,806.
Of the total slaughter, 51% corresponds to steers, 33% to cows and 14% to heifers According to the report, “despite the decrease in the heads slaughtered for the total categories of the species, the participation of the steers in the present agricultural exercise it is greater with respect to the last periods”.
On the other hand, they assure that despite the increase registered in the first semester with respect to the first 6 months of the previous year, in the second semester “a drop of 19.1% is appreciated, having slaughtered 1,085,806 animals, the third semester being the lowest of the last 10 years”.
Regarding other species, such as sheep, there was an activity of 1,500,490 slaughtered heads, representing a positive variation of 10.7% compared to the previous year. Of this total, lambs were 57% of the slaughter, sheep 30% and capons 7%.
Beef exports decreased by 23.6%
Regarding exports, according to Inac, the meat sector allowed an income of 2,711,752 dollars of which 79.9% corresponds to bovine meat4.6% primary by-product for industrial use and thirdly offal with 4.2% of what was exported.
Regarding bovine meat, 475,098 tons were exported, decreasing by 23.6% compared to the previous year, although the task of the previous exercise It has been the largest in the last 10 years.
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The average income per ton carcass weight, for its part, was 4,564 USD/TON pc in the total year, 258 dollars less per exported ton. In other words, a negative percentage variation of 5.4%. In this sense, it was highlighted that the current agricultural year as well as the previous one are the only two periods where the average income exported from bovine meat exceeded 4,500 USD/TON pc.
The most relevant markets were, first of all, China with 58.6% with 278,433 tons of bovine meat. Second, there was United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) with 20.1% of the total, representing 95,262 tons and, finally, the European Union (EU) with 8.0% and with 37,807 tons of bovine meat.
Source: Ambito
