With the increase in demand for chicken meat among Arab countries following the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, Egyptian authorities are already considering allowing the import of chicken cuts from Brazil to avoid a possible shortage of the product in its domestic market.
The country only imports the entire animal and enabled 27 poultry units in Brazil in April this year, paying attention to the possible impacts of the new coronavirus on the world market.
“Egypt is starting to feel a lack of stock and, therefore, has started to move quickly. I hope that, in a few months or a few weeks, we will have some good news about opening up the export of chicken cuts to Egypt – which would be unprecedented”, says the secretary general of the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB), Tamer Mansour.
According to him, the movement occurs despite resistance from local producers. “Of course, Egyptian poultry producers are against it, but the government is really measuring and checking the situation. If he feels that there will be a lack of product, he will open the market (for chicken cuts)”, assures the general secretary of CCAB.
According to Mansour, the Egyptian market has been supplied by Arab countries that also produce chicken meat, such as Algeria, but with limited capacity to supply the product in large volumes – as does Brazil, the world's largest exporter of slaughtered meat according to Islamic precepts. “I honestly don’t believe in competition in terms of birds for Brazil”, he assesses.
According to the general secretary of the CCAB, current competitors in the Arab chicken meat market are sporadic and tend to gain ground either when Brazil increases its sales to China or due to geographical advantages. “It is very difficult for any country to produce as Brazil does in terms of birds. We will certainly have a strong deficit in terms of poultry proteins in these markets”, he warns.
Source: Notícias Agrícolas
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