2024-02-26 15:25:00
“The previous management counted the weight of the bone in the amount of meat exported and that allowed the export numbers to be increased and justified the different stocks that existed for export, with this issue of encourage domestic consumption y this whole story that they were selling to us regarding encouraging internal consumption“This is how presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni justified this morning the new decision of the Ministry of Agriculture to recalculate meat exports without accounting for the weight of the bones.
“The Ministry of Agriculture decided make transparent the way beef exports are measured. Now a unified criterion has been adopted that has technical validation from INDEC,” Adorni explained this Monday, February 26, in his usual press conference.
According to data published last Friday, February 23, by the economic portfolio, they provided data that was different from that published by the administration of Alberto Fernández’s government. “With the corrected series, beef exports grew by 6% and 17% compared to the record for 2022 and 2021 respectively,” the report indicated. The data that was before and that is not counted now is the weight of the bones.
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The National Directorate of Animal Production from Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, decided to correct the methodology for calculating sales abroad and consumption per person of beef.
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Said methodological review of the calculation of beef exports, adjusting its composition for the period 2019-2023, showed strong numerical differences.
“Las Exports in 2023 closed at 852,806 thousand tons of beef equivalent with bone once morest 963,690 tons that had been calculated before the methodological correction. With the corrected series, beef exports grew by 6% and 17% compared to the record of 2022 and 2021 respectively, but showed a decrease of 4% compared to the volume of 2020,” explained the Secretariat.
On the other hand, he added that “Sales of bones resulting from deboning (bones with meat) grew significantly as of July 2019, registering a volume of 111 thousand tons of product weight in 2023. In mid-March 2021, a specific tariff position was created, called “Other bones resulting from deboning”, which allows it to be differentiated.
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As for the total export income, The new data showed that In 2023 they were for 2,655 million dollars, 19.6% lower compared to the previous year, due to the fall in international prices (-24%).
According to the new calculation, consumption also changed and was 5% higher
“Making the real numbers transparent also meant correcting the way of calculating beef consumption in Argentina,” they indicated from the National Directorate of Animal Production
“Through methodological correction, The annual intake per inhabitant was 5% higher than what had been calculated in the previous administration, turning out to be reals 52.22 kg consumed per inhabitant in 2023 once morest the 49.84 kg that had been originally calculated.
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