The EU broiler industry is forecast to grow over the next 15 months, according to the latest sector report from the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA/FAS).
The EU market is expected to benefit during the remainder of 2016 and throughout 2017 from “slowly increasing demand” with poultrymeat being less affected than other meats by the economic downturn in Europe.
“Brazil and Thailand will remain the largest suppliers of broiler meat to EU-28, with Ukraine becoming the third largest supplier,” said USDA/FAS, who also forecast a rise in EU-28 broiler meat exports over the next two years, despite the continuing Russian embargo.
The report also identifies Poland as now being the leading EU-28 broiler meat producing country.
