Brazil sees record pork, chicken exports to Philippines

Brazilian meat exporters are confident of shipping 570,000 metric tons of pork and chicken meat to the Philippines this year, fueled by the country’s rising demand for animal protein.

The Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) forecasts that its combined pork and chicken meat exports to the Philippines will hit around 570,000 MT this year, 16 percent higher than last year’s close to 490,000 MT.

ABPA president Ricardo Santin said Brazil may ship as much as 270,000 MT of chicken meat to the Philippines this year, 15 percent higher than last year’s 234,861 MT.

The Philippines was Brazil’s third-largest market in Asia and sixth-largest globally for chicken meat, based on ABPA data. The country accounted for 4.55 percent of Brazil’s total chicken meat exports in 2024.

Brazil’s pork exports to the Philippines, on the other hand, are expected to reach more than 300,000 MT this year, surpassing the record-high volume of 254,000 MT last year, Santin said.

The Philippines became Brazil’s top market destination for pork products for the first time last year. The South American country saw pork shipments to the Philippines in 2024 doubling to 254,000 MT from 126,000 MT in 2023.

ABPA data showed that Brazil saw growth across exports of its various pork products last year: cuts, 217,489 MT (up 104 percent); offals, 20,252 (up 58 percent); carcass, 226 MT (up 120,000 percent); processed pork, 88 MT (up 23 percent) and pork fats, 16,261 MT (up 142 percent).

ABPA said that one of the drivers of the higher pork exports to the Philippines last year was the growing demand for new products such as mesentery, which is used for chicharon bulaklak, and dewlap, which refers to the lower part of the pig’s neck.

“I forecast a big growth in pork (exports) because the Philippines is demanding more. More and more companies are getting to know Brazilian companies better,” Santin said.

“Brazil is now the main exporter of pork to the Philippines. And the Philippines is our main important market for pork,” Santin added.

Source: Phil Star