August 13, 2010

Thailand raises chicken products exports

Thailand has increased its export of frozen chicken amid the weakening international trade of the product.

According to Poultry Highlights from the NFU in England, June shipments of cooked chicken preparations amounted to 38,900 tonnes, an emphatic 33% more than in the same month last year as EU buyers led by the UK recovered their momentum and Japan also took significantly more.

EU imports amounted to 18,258 tonnes in June, of which almost 12,400 tonnes was taken by the UK, up from 10,000 in June 2009. A sharp increase in orders from France added impetus to the EU market, which is now seen to have imported just short of 186,000 tonnes of Thai preparations in the first half of this year, up 13% on-year.

Japan, which is taking almost as much as the EU, imported an extra 5,500 tonnes in June this year compared to last, with its 18,000 tonnes intake pushing its total Thai imports for the first half of 2010 to over 79,560 tonnes, 11% more than the same period of 2009.