They assure that there will be new increases in the price of meat

Leonardo Rafael, president of the Chamber of Suppliers and Slaughterers (CAMyA), said that new increases on the price of meat still need to be applied since “it was very cheap during 2022.” “There was a delay of 60, 70%” during the previous year, said the sector leader. In this framework, the average price of standing steer went from $ 309 per kilo at the beginning of January to $ 418 in the last week of the month, which implied a rise of 35%, while in steer the jump was from $ 312 to $ 433 per kilo live, a jump of 38%. Regarding the average res, the increases that transferred to the retail trade the slaughterers, refrigerators and suppliers, and that culminated last week, were on average between $ 250 and $ 300 per kilo. When asked about retail prices, Rafael stressed in radio statements that “meat was very cheap during 2022: there was a delay of 60, 70% in relation to inflation.” In addition, he anticipated that “there is still an increase of 15 or 20%,” in dialogue with AM 750. The farm market is supply and demand. There was more supply than the demand needed, in addition to the weather issue that the drought brought forward the work. The December slaughter was close to 53 kilos per capita of consumption, “he added, regarding the causes that had operated on the delay in prices before January and added: “It was a product that was cheap in relation to any product in the basket.” In recent weeks there were increases of 30% in meat, in the last 20 days, and it was moving last week to the counters and this week, “he said. Regarding future increases, he commented: “We do not know if it will be in February or March when the flow of people is on the streets.” When making a comparison with international prices, Rafael pointed out that the delay is around 200% in the kilo of meat and stressed that it is not that prices are very high in the sector but that “our salaries are very depressed.”

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