March 5, 2013

Brazil intends to build trade partnerships around the world while giving a presentation on the Brazilian poultry industry at the Embassy of Brazil in Islamabad on Thursday (Feb 28).

Brazilian Poultry Association Vice-President and Market Director Ricardo Santin has said that Pakistani market is still closed for the Brazilian poultry, but negotiations on the approval of an Animal Sanitary Certificate are well advanced.

More than 60 guests attended the event including businesspeople, journalists and officials. Santin is also vice-president of the International Poultry Council.

Brazil is the world's largest exporter of poultry, selling abroad more than four million tonnes of poultry per year, and the world's largest exporter of halal poultry (1.8 million tonnes per year). Among the top five biggest poultry production companies three are Brazilians.

The main destination of Brazilian poultry products are Saudi Arabia, EU, Japan, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, China, South Africa, Egypt, Kuwait and Iraq, among others. Santin stressed that the poultry production in Brazil is in accordance with halal procedures and there are three halal certification organisations in the country. Some of the companies, he added, produce exclusively for Muslim countries.

The Brazilian poultry industry is among the best in the world, due to high technology equipment, methods, investment on research, high standards of sanitary control, animal health and animal welfare.