August 18, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Brazilian meat exporters are assured of transport 570,000 metric tons of pork and rooster meat to the Philippines this 12 months, fueled by the nation’s rising demand for animal protein.
The Brazilian Animal Protein Affiliation (ABPA) forecasts that its mixed pork and rooster meat exports to the Philippines will hit round 570,000 MT this 12 months, 16 p.c greater than final 12 months’s near 490,000 MT.
ABPA president Ricardo Santin stated Brazil might ship as a lot as 270,000 MT of rooster meat to the Philippines this 12 months, 15 p.c greater than final 12 months’s 234,861 MT.
The Philippines was Brazil’s third-largest market in Asia and sixth-largest globally for rooster meat, primarily based on ABPA knowledge. The nation accounted for 4.55 p.c of Brazil’s complete rooster meat exports in 2024.
Brazil’s pork exports to the Philippines, alternatively, are anticipated to succeed in greater than 300,000 MT this 12 months, surpassing the record-high quantity of 254,000 MT final 12 months, Santin stated.
The Philippines turned Brazil’s prime market vacation spot for pork merchandise for the primary time final 12 months. The South American nation noticed pork shipments to the Philippines in 2024 doubling to 254,000 MT from 126,000 MT in 2023.
ABPA knowledge confirmed that Brazil noticed progress throughout exports of its varied pork merchandise final 12 months: cuts, 217,489 MT (up 104 p.c); offals, 20,252 (up 58 p.c); carcass, 226 MT (up 120,000 p.c); processed pork, 88 MT (up 23 p.c) and pork fat, 16,261 MT (up 142 p.c).
ABPA stated that one of many drivers of the upper pork exports to the Philippines final 12 months was the rising demand for brand spanking new merchandise corresponding to mesentery, which is used for chicharon bulaklak, and dewlap, which refers back to the decrease a part of the pig’s neck.
“I forecast an enormous progress in pork (exports) as a result of the Philippines is demanding extra. Increasingly more corporations are attending to know Brazilian corporations higher,” Santin stated.
“Brazil is now the principle exporter of pork to the Philippines. And the Philippines is our major necessary marketplace for pork,” Santin added.