Case study: Stable outlook for Argentina’s poultry sector

2020 chicken meat production and consumption in Argentina is forecast to remain steady with a slight increase in exports to key markets of China, Chile and Russia. A stable forecast is given for chicken meat production in Argentina for 2020, at 2.22 million metric tonnes (mmt) (2019: 2.171 million tonnes; 2018: 2.068 million tonnes) produced by a sector dominated by domestic, family-owned enterprises. More than 80% of the country’s chicken meat production is processed in 58 federally-inspecte