The National Directorate of Animal Production of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries decided to correct the methodology for calculating sales abroad and consumption per person of beef.
This methodological review of the calculation of beef exports, adjusting its composition for the period 2019-2023, made it possible to find relevant numerical differences.
Exports in 2023 closed at 852,806 thousand tons of beef equivalent with bone against 963,690 tons that had been calculated before the methodological correction. With the corrected series, beef exports grew by 6% and 17% compared to the record for 2022 and 2021 respectively, but showed a decrease of 4% compared to the volume of 2020.
Sales of bones resulting from deboning (bones with meat) grew significantly as of July 2019, registering a volume of 111 thousand tons of product weight in 2023. In mid-March 2021, a specific tariff position was created, called “Other bones resulting from deboning”, which allows it to be differentiated.
Total export revenues in 2023 were 2,655 million dollars, 19.6% lower compared to the previous year, due to the fall in international prices (-24%).
Making the real numbers transparent also meant correcting the way beef consumption in Argentina was calculated. Through the methodological correction, the annual intake per inhabitant was 5% higher than what had been calculated in the previous administration, resulting in 52.22 kg consumed per inhabitant in 2023 versus the 49.84 kg that had been calculated. originally.
“In this way, cattle farming has been able to increase production during the last four years, supporting exports without affecting domestic consumption,” the Government concluded.
2024-02-25 13:38:27
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