HCP: animal sector, revival of local production

HIBAPRESS-RABAT-COMMUNIQUE

In the animal sector, the effort to reconstitute the herd, after the significant decline recorded during the last three years, would also have been compromised by the deterioration of the growing ranges and the prolonged rainfall deficit over the first five months of the campaign.

The relaunch of local red meat production would have been delayed and the supply of the local market would have remained boosted, for the most part, by imports of cattle and sheep.

Conversely, the growth prospects for white meat would have relatively improved in a context of decline in the price of compound feed, in line with the drop in the international price of corn of 35.5% in the first quarter of 2024, instead -2.4% a year earlier, in annual variations.

Production of broiler meat would have increased by 2.5%, in annual variation, in the first quarter of 2024, instead of +2.4% in the same period of the previous year.