Worries industry consumption of supplemental

The economic crisis and the reduction in the purchasing power of families have done with that migrate to other proteins, like chicken, what concerns nutrition companies.
Even so, the animal supplementation segment has benefited from the high movement of arroba of oxen and the need for improvement in productivity due to low supply of cattle-since it's in the beef cattle which is the highest profitability. "More than ever, it's time to roll up our sleeves", emphasizes the President of Phibro in Brazil, Stefan Mihailov. In an interview with the DCI, he says that the cost of production should reduce the income of the producer margins, triggering a transfer of these expenses to the meat. This can make investments such as nutrition on pasture are affected. "We are active in all segments and we have to balance our results with other species, but the growth potential is much smaller than the veal. It is a worrying scenario ", he adds.
Phibro recently ended its fiscal year 2014/2015 with total revenues of $ 749 million, a growth of 9% in the animal health business and 8% of the total advancement of the company over the previous year. In Brazil sales reached 17% of earnings in dollars and 28% in Brazilian reais, outperforming the market developments of animal health in the country, according to the company, in the last 12 months, accused 5.2% retraction American currency.
Based upon market, Mihailov says the strategy has already committed to go to the field and be closer to Stockman in order to foster the implementation of animal supplement as a key agent for productivity gain, should intensify. Until next year, the expectation is to keep the company on the positive, with advance between 6% and 8% at the global level.
In cattle, the Phibro works in disclosure in the boi 777. The proposal is to produce cattle young and with more weight, synonymous with greater productivity, higher profitability and lower pressure on the environment, obtained by the reduction in time creates the animals. The company has presented this concept, which advocates the pursuit of animals reaching 21 ton to 24 months.