date:Aug 07, 2014
The Brazilian meat industry is ready to take advantage of a Russian ban on U.S. agricultural imports and ship Russia more chicken, though not pork, Brazil's animal protein association ABPA said on Wednesday.
Brazil, the world's largest chicken exporter, could send 150,000 more tonnes per year to Russia in addition to the 60,000 tonnes it exported there last year, ABPA President Francisco Turra told journalists.
Brazil has previously exported 300,000 tonnes of chicken to Russia annually, he sai