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Full Page Fax Print LIVESTOCK IN LATIN AMERICA a Status, problems and prospects United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Economic Commission for Latin America Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Livestock in Latin A Status, problems and prospects IL BRAZIL UNITED NATIONS New York, 1964 E/CN.12/636 UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATION Sales No.: 64. II.G. 3 Price: $U.S. 1.00 (or equivalent in other currencies) CONTENTS Page Explanation of symbols vii Explanatory note viii INTRODUCTION 1 I. AVAILABLE RESOURCES 1. Livestock and poultry inventories 4 2. Stock-farming area 6 II. STOCK-FARMING AREAS AND THEIR ECOLOGY 7 1. Norte 7 2. Nordeste 7 3. Este 8 (a) Minas Gerais 9 (b) Bahia 9 4. Centro Oeste 10 (a) Mato Grosso 10 (b) Goiàs 11 (c) Stock-farming areas in central Brazil 11 5. Sul 12 (a) Sào Paulo 12 (b) Rio Grande do Sul 13 III. CHARACTERISTICS OF PRODUCTION 1. Livestock breeds and their distribution (a) Cattle (i) Indian breeds 14 (ii) European breeds of beef cattle 15 (iii) Creole breeds 17 (iv) Foreign dairy breeds 17 (v) Buffalo breeding 18 (b) Pigs 19 (c) Sheep 19 (d) Goats 19 2. Livestock production (a) Value of production 19 (b) Meat production 20 (c) Milk production 20 (d) Egg production 22 (e) Wool production 22 3. Livestock production trends 23 IV. STOCK-FARMING EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY 25 1. Rate of reproduction 25 2. Slaughtering rate 25 iii CONTENTS (continued) Page 3. Meat yield per animal 26 4. Production per unit of inventory 27 5. Efficiency of milk production 27 6. Productivity levels by area 28 7. Costs and productivity 29 V. FACTORS THAT LIMIT PRODUCTION 29 1. Inadequate feeding 30 (a) Seasonal forage shortages 30 (b) Pasturage problems (i) Sub-division of pastureland 30 (ii) Grazing systems 31 (iii) Single-crop and mixed pastures 31 (iv) Weed control 31 (c) Cultivated or artificial pastures 31 (d) Fodder conservation 32 (e) Feed complements 32 2. Livestock diseases 32 (a) Infectious and contagious diseases (i) Foot-and-mouth disease 33 (ii) Brucellosis, or Bang's disease, and other diseases of the reproduc- tive system 33 (iii) Infectious diseases in calves 33 (iv) Other infectious diseases 33 (b) Parasitic infestations 34 (c) Mineral deficiency problems 34 3. Factors limiting breed improvement 34 4. Other limiting factors (a) Management defects 36 (b) Land tenure problems 36 VI. THE MARKETING OF LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS 37 1. The marketing of meat (a) Beef cattle 38 (b) Transport 38 (c) Slaughtering and processing (i) Municipal slaughterhouses 39 (ii) The manufacture of jerked beef 39 (iii) Meat-packing plants 40 (d) The meat trade 40 (i) Unsatisfactory price policy 41 (ii) Absence of a network of refrigeration plants and modern storage facilities 41 (iii) Shortcomings in grading standards 42 (iv) Monopoly and speculation 42 (v) Shortcomings in retail distribution 42 (vi) High marketing margins 42 2. The marketing of milk products (a) Distribution of output 44 (b) The marketing of fluid milk 44 (c) Milk marketing margins 45 iv CONTENTS (continued) Page (d) Processed milk products 46 (e) Grading and quality standards 47 VII. DEMAND AND CONSUMPTION 48 1. Consumption levels and trends (a) Meat 49 (b) Milk and milk products 51 (c) Eggs 52 2. Seasonal fluctuations in consumption (a) Meat 53 (b) Milk and milk products 54 3. The influence of prices 55 4. Outlook for demand 57 5. Demand and foreign trade 59 VIII. LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT: PROMOTION AND PROSPECTS 1. Development of livestock activities (a) Livestock experts 60 (b) Livestock development plans 61 (c) Development through credit 62 2. Livestock development prospects 62 IX. STATISTICAL ANNEX 63 TABLES 1. Brazil: Livestock and poultry inventories, 1950, 1955 and 1960 5 2. Brazil: Evolution of the cattle population, 1950-60 5 3. Brazil: Percentage breakdown of cattle population 6 4. Rio Grande do Sul: Genealogical register of European beef cattle, up to I960 ... 16 5. Brazil: Composition of livestock production, 1960 19 6. Brazil: Production of red carcass meat and poultry, 1949-51 and 1958-60 20 7. Brazil: Per capita production of red carcass meat, milk and eggs in selected periods 23 8. Brazil: Breakdown of slaughtering by establishments, 1960 39 9. Brazil: Destination of milk output, 1957 44 10. Sao Paulo: Breakdown of the final milk price, 1951-59 45 11. Brazil: Price structure for grade C milk on the basis of prices fixed by COFAP 46 12. Per capita consumption of animal protein in selected countries, 1953-59 49 13. Brazil: Apparent consumption of meat, total and per capita, 1949-51 to 1958-60.... 50 14. Per capita consumption of livestock products in selected countries, 1948-50 and 1957-59 51 15. Brazil: Apparent consumption of milk products in terms of fluid milk, 1949-50, 1958-60 and 1960 51 16. Brazil: Consumption of fluid milk in the Federal District and the capitals of the States and territories, 1960 53 17. Brazil: Seasonal distribution of slaughterings of cattle and pigs at five meat-packing plants in Sao Paulo, 1950-60 54 18. Brazil: Projections of demand for red meat and poultry by 1965 and 1970 57 19. Brazil: Targets for livestock and meat production for 1970 58 20. Brazil: Daily milk consumption targets for the State capitals by 1970 58 21. Brazil: Meat exports in selected years 59 v CONTENTS (continued) FIGURES Page I. Brazil: Red meat production, 1948-60 20 II. Brazil: Past variations in cattle slaughtering and beef production, 1940-60 .... 24 III. Brazil: Seasonal variations in cattle slaughtering and in deflated prices for beef cattle (steers) in Sao Paulo, 1950-60 54 IV. Brazil: Relative prices for beef, milk and eggs, 1940-61 56 V. Brazil: Exports of frozen and canned meat, 1914-60 60 O a vi EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS The following symbols have been used throughout this report: Three dots (...) indicate that data are not available or are not separately reported. A dash (—) indicates that the amount is nil or negligible. A minus sign (—) indicates a deficit or decrease. A full stop (.) is used to indicate decimals. A comma (,) is used to distinguish thousands and millions. An oblique stroke (/) indicates a crop year or fiscal year—e.g., 1954/55. Use of a hyphen (-) between dates representing years—e.g., 1950-54—normally signifies an annual average for the calendar years involved, including the beginning and end years. "To" between the years indicates the full period— e.g., 1950 to 1954 means 1950 to 1954, inclusive. References to "tons" indicate metric tons, and to "dollars" United States dollars, unless otherwise stated. Details and percentages in tables do not necessarily add to totals, because of rounding. vii EXPLANATORY NOTE The work programme of the Joint ECLA/FAO Agriculture Division includes a survey on the conditions, problems and prospects of the livestock economy in representative countries of Latin America. The present study on Brazil supple- ments those already carried out on Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela, and published by the United Nations.* Only the major technical and economic problems of the livestock industry in Brazil are dealt with in this study, and no attempt is made to embark upon an exhaustive analysis of the complexity and size of the country's livestock population. However, this work should be most useful for the general survey on the Latin American livestock sector now being prepared. The co-operation offered by a number of Brazilian agencies and experts, from whom valuable written and oral data were obtained, is hereby gratefully acknowledged, in particular the assistance given by Eduardo Silveira Martins, Miguel Cione Pardi, Robinson de Vasconcelos Costa and Luis Carlos Pinheiro Machado. * See Livestock in Latin America: status, problems and prospects, volume I on Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela; United Nations publication, Sales No.: 61.ILG.7. viii INTRODUCTION Brazil, which has the largest area of any country in maintains the third largest cattle population in the the Western Hemisphere—847 million hectares—uses world, officially estimated at some 74 million head of a bare 150 million for agricultural activities, i.e., nearly cattle, a large pig inventory numbering 48 million and 17 per cent of its total territory. Of its 71 million nearly 30 million sheep and goats. inhabitants 54 per cent is formed by the rural popula- According to the figures of the Production Statistics tion. Accordingly, the relation between agricultural land Service in the Ministry of Agriculture (Servigo do and the rural population is only 4.4 hectares per person, estatística da produgao (SEP), Ministério da Agricul- which is less than in other Latin American countries. tura), the cattle population increased by 40 per cent Despite the predominance of agricultural activities between 1950 and 1960, that is, at a cumulative rate and the fact that more than half the population lives in of 3.4 per cent which is considered by some Brazilian rural areas, this sector produces only a quarter of the experts to be over-estimated. The pig population is national income. With the rapid industrial growth re- estimated to have had a natural growth rate of 6.3 per corded in Brazil during the last few years the agricul- cent annually, or twice that of population growth. But, tural sector has tended to contribute less to the forma- in actual fact, livestock production on the basis of tion of the domestic product. Indeed, in real terms, the these two species increased far more slowly. agricultural product increased as little as 42 per cent Brazilian stock farming may be divided into three between 1949 and 1958 whereas the industrial product types depending on the climate. North of latitude 20°, expanded from 100 to 235.
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