Abstract:
The poultry meat occupies an important place in the structure of the
European meat consumption (for example, if the consumption has been 23,2
Kg/inhabitant in 2007, the specialists foresee to reach 24,5 Kg/inhabitant in
2014).
During the last five years, the evolution of the total poultry meat
production in the European Union presented an ascendant tendency.
Currently, the France, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Poland, Holland are the
primary poultry producers.
In addition, the biggest predominance of imports has been performed
from Brazil, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Germany and Austria. In the period
2004-2008, the European Union imports of poultry meat came from Brazil,
Thailand and Chile in a proportion of 95 %. Poultry meat trade had an
obvious increase at the level of the European Union, afterwards in the period
2003-2008, exports decreased with almost ¼ (in the year 2008, as compared
to 2002) and imports increased with 23,5 %.
Poultry meat exports from the European Union addressed to Russia,
Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Benin, Hong Kong, Vietnam etc.
In the European Union, the poultry meat prices had an increasing
evolution in the year 2009, comparing to the year 2007.
The price policy adopted this year by producers will influence the
evolution of the poultry meat market in 2009. As the costs of production will
have a significant increase, the specialists count on the fact that imports will
decrease because of the international economic situation and the rate of
exchange that will create more space on the internal market of local
producers.
According to the main players in the field, the poultry meat market
will have an ascendant tendency and will register an increase of 10 % at
least, in spite of the present climate of economic recession.
