In a complex economic context resulting from the severe drought that devastates agribusiness, the increase in grain prices due to the Russo-Ukrainian war and the high inflation registered by our country -the fourth highest in the world in interannual terms-, the meat increased its price below general inflation.
For its part, the Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA) reinforces its idea that the meat industry it is not the driver of inflation in Argentina. As general inflation reached 88% in regards to the period between October 2021 and October 2022, it can be contrasted with what increased the barbecue (70.8%), the meat common chopped (69%), shoulder (70.6%) rump (72.2%) and buttock (70.1%).
The prices of the meat they saw a greater deceleration with respect to general inflation, which in the month of November reached 4.9% and achieved an upward yoy price variation of 85.3%. Even though the prices of the meat grew more slowly, the consumption of beef product in our country it is at low levels, this being 47 kilos per inhabitant per year, its historical minimum.
This particular variation in the price of meat products, according to the CRA, is due to the fact that the standing farm brought back its nominal prices. In addition, the sector is undergoing a “cooling off” in the economy of the countries to which these products are exported. On the other hand, Rural Confederations states that the problem of inflation is the loss of purchasing power of the peso and stresses that the meat It is not a price maker.
Foreign exchange for agribusiness in 2022
Last year, the amount of foreign currency liquidated by the agro-industrial sector reached more than 40,438 million dollars, constituting the best year for the Chamber of the Oil Industry of the Argentine Republic (CIARA) and the Center for Grain Exporters (CEC). since records were kept.
In a comparative way, it is known that the dollars of the agribusiness correspond to 22% more than what was surveyed in 2021. In this way, the items of oilseeds and cereals, which include biodiesel and its derivatives, were 48% of the total of exports from our territory.
