Paraná highlights in the export of fertile eggs and chicks

The benefits of investing in quality and animal sanity products, often seem difficult to measure, as it is only at the moment of export that these decisions will convert into access to new markets and better prices paid to producers.

It is often said that a country with well-structured health protection not only sells the food itself, but also the food security intrinsic to it. This explains why Brazil has been highlights in the world trade in poultry genetic material, such as fertile eggs and day-old chicks (not cut chicks, but small chickens grandparents, matrices and laying hens).

According to the Report 2017 of the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) (most recent data), Paraná led Brazilian exports of these two products, accounting for 41.45% of shipments in that period. The total exported by Brazil was 9,399 tons of fertile eggs and 754 tons of chicks a day.

If the volume looks like small, the revenue is not. High value-added products, the chicks, which carry top-quality genetics, were traded for an average value of $ 87,274.53 per ton. For comparative purposes, according to ABPA data, the average price of one ton exported chicken meat was US $ 1,562.04. That is, chicken genetics is worth about 55 times more than your protein for consumption.

The explanation for these results is the good sanitary status of the Brazilian product, which facilitates access to new markets. The country is one of the only major players in the world that has never had a problem with avian influenza, a contagious disease that has already been registered in several countries, including the largest exporters of poultry genetics in the world, such as the US and European Union countries.

“Nowadays Brazil is a platform for the export of genetic material. The world’s great genetics houses built plants in Brazil to make a ‘backup’. If there is a problem of avian influenza in a plant of this company in Asia, for example, they can continue to export through Brazil, “says the ABPA director of institutional relations, Ariel Antônio Mendes.

He confirms that the good moment of Brazilian poultry genetics is tied to its sanitary status. “In 2016, the main exporting countries were with avian influenza, so it was left for Brazil to meet this market demand,” says Mendes referring to the increasing shipments of day-old chicks.