Feed production is expected to grow 3% in year

Feed production is expected to grow 3% in year
After a pullback languish in 2012, the feed industry expects a recovery this year. The estimate is producing 64.6 million tons of rations and 2.2 million tonnes of mineral salt.
If you hit these numbers, the sector will have a growth of 3%, a percentage similar to his crash last year.
The first-quarter data, however, indicate rhythm shy. Industries produced 14.6 million tonnes from January to March, 1% less than in the same period last year.
And the data are estimates of the Sindirações (National Union of the Animal feed industry).
Despite this retraction at the beginning of the year, Ariovaldo Zani, Vice President of Sindirações, says the industry reaction might come. For this, however, is likely to achieve the expected reaction of the economy in the second half.
The international economic slump, not internal reaction and inflation hitting the ceiling will require moderation and shared efforts of all, says the Vice President of the Union.
The poultry sector, the principal of the feed industry, started the year with the foot on the brake. Feed intake on cutting poultry fell 4.2% in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2012. Already the demand by laying poultry farming grew 3%.
A recovery in prices paid to producers and the fall in the cost of corn and soybean meal will stimulate the housing and increase the supply of chicken, believes Zani.
The swine industry, other major segment for the feed industry, started the year with an increase of 1% in consumption.
If the cost of production does not suffer so much volatility, consumption will grow 2.5 percent in the year, the Executive believes in pig production.
In the sector of milk cattle, high was 3%, while in the Court there was stability in the first quarter compared to 2012.
Although with smaller holdings in the total volume of the industry, the production of feedingstuffs for dogs and cats and to fish and shrimp is the fastest growing this year, repeating a tendency that occurred in the previous one.
Driven by the emerging middle class, production for dogs and cats must grow 5 percent this year.
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