Price of meat Has a significant Fall in July

According to the GfK study, carried out in more than 300 establishments (supermarkets and hypermarkets) across the country, there was a significant fall in the price of all kinds of meat (beef, pork and chicken), especially red meat, since the end of last year. Low prices intensified from the weak flesh and Operation of JBS''s Tipoff, in the months of April and may 2017. Watching the fall of price per kilo, chicken meat, beef and swine had a monthly variation of May to June-3.2% for beef,-1.6% for pork and-2.1% for beef and chicken. In the monthly variation of June to July, the decline was 2.4%,-2.6% and-1.6%-respectively. "This low prices is even more relevant when we observe the cumulative 2017 for chicken (-12.5%) and beef (-7.3%), much less accentuated in the case of pork (-1.3%)", explains Marco Aurélio Lima, Executive Director of GfK.
Regional variation the variation between regions surveyed showed a significant difference too. The Northeast region (0.1%) presented almost no impact, primarily by the current climate situation, with excess rain on the coast and lack of rainfall in the interior. "According to the study, the Midwest and North regions, showed a significant fall of-15.4% in all types of meat," concludes Aurelius.