South Africa: Poultry and Products Annual

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   SF2024-0021
Post forecasts that chicken meat production will increase by three percent to 1.65 million tons in Marketing Year (MY) 2025 as a result of a strengthening domestic sector. Post raises the 2024 production estimate by 6 percent to 1.59 million tons as the industry has rebounded from the 2023 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak. Post forecasts decreasing food inflation and softening poultry prices will boost South Africa’s domestic consumption of chicken meat, which is expected to increase by two percent to 1.88 million tons in 2025. Post revises imports downwards to 320,000 tons and forecasts that imports will decrease by a further six percent in 2025 to 300,000 tons, continuing the downward trend.

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