International Egg and Poultry Review
By the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service - This is a weekly report looking at international developments concerning the poultry industry, this week looking at Thailand's Poultry Situation.
Thailand's Poultry Situation
Thailand's poultry industry continues to recover from Highly Pathogenic
Avian Influenza (HPAI) for the second consecutive year since it hit
the sector in January of 2004. As of February 2, 2006 OIE received
notice that Thailand has had no new outbreaks of HPAI since November
17, 2005. The industry has responded well by making management
and biosafety improvements at both the production and processing
levels, in order to cope with demand increases and protect commercial
poultry production against future AI incidents.
As a result,
Thailand's broiler meat production is estimated to grow 18% in 2006
over the 2005 level in an anticipation of the availability of unused production
capacity among poultry processors, a lack of disease threats
to the commercial poultry industry, and the anticipation of continued
growth in both domestic consumption and exports of cooked poultry.
Domestic consumption is forecast to grow 7%, due to increased consumer
confidence in the safety of cooked chicken meat and the relatively
competitive prices of chicken meat against other meats. The high
stocks of chicken meat that troubled several packers in late 2004 and
early 2005 have been absorbed and no longer pose a problem in
2006.
Broiler meat exports in 2006 are forecast to increase 30% over 2005
levels, due to the higher market value of Thai cooked products over its
competitors (China and Brazil) and its ability to increase cooked product
supplies quickly. It is expected Thailand will continue to export cooked
products as import prohibitions continue on Thai uncooked chicken.
Thailand's major buyers will continue to be the EU, Japan, South Korea,
Singapore, and Hong Kong. Of the 265,450 tons of cooked meat
exported in 2005, Japan was the largest importer accounting for 54%
of the total volume with the EU (41%) and other countries (5%) following
right behind. Duck meat exports also grew about 70% to 5,600 tons
in the first ten months of 2005 valued around $26.7 million.
Source: USDA FAS/OIE/news wires
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Source: USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service - 14th February 2006