FILE PHOTO: A worker carries a beef carcass for sale in an abattoir at a wholesale market in Mumbai June 2, 2011. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
A temporary widespread embargo on imports of beef from Brazil, the world’s largest exporter, should have been a boon for India, the second largest, but internal restrictions on the slaughter of certain types of cattle have resulted in a flat performance in India’s export numbers in the financial year that ended on March 31, 2018.
Several countries – including the United States, the nations of the European Union, and China, Brazil’s top beef destinations – temporarily banned Brazilian meat after prosecutors said health inspectors there had been taking bribes to approve sub-standard meat. Other importing nations, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE followed suit.
The scandal that erupted on March 17 hit Brazil’s meat industry hard, causing beef exports to fall in the range of 11 percent to 18 percent in the three months immediately following the crackdown, according to data compiled by the Brazilian Beef Exporters Association (ABIEC).
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Syed Ameen Kader, White Paper Media