India's bovine exports to the Middle East will increase
India's herd of cattle and water buffalo is set to increase this year and that leads to a stronger presence of Indian beef in some export markets, commented Meat&Livestock Australia (MLA), according to Queensland Country Life.
India’s beef and buffalo meat production is expected to reach 4.25 million tonnes carton weight in 2017 and increase by 1.2 per cent in 2018, to 4.3mt, thinks MLA international markets general manager Michael Finucan.
"India’s meat sector mainly depends on the slaughter of unproductive water buffalo cows and bulls from the dairy sector. As water buffalos account for around 45pc of the dairy herd in India, the growth in Indian buffalo meat production is largely driven by the expanding dairy industry", said Finucan.
Meantime, the Indian government is supporting the dairy industry to expand further and that is increasing the rate of slaughtering for the unproductive animals in this sector.
The primary export markets for Indian buffalo meat are Vietnam, Malaysia and Egypt but MLA's experts are expecting to see a bigger presence of Indian beef in markets such as UAE and Saudi Arabia that were usually dominated by the Australian beef industry.
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