Poultry: Brazilian enterprise wants to export organic chicken

Company Korin Agropecuária is the first company from the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo to produce organic chicken on grazing ground. Thanks to the increase in offer of inputs like organic maize and soy, the company has managed to produce chicken according to international organic regulations. The certification is granted by the Biodynamics Institute (IBD). In 1995, Korin had already pioneered in the launch of “green chicken”, without the use of antibiotics, hormones and growth promoters.
Part of the production of organic chicken supplies the domestic market, but the main focus is exports. “France, Germany, Japan and the United States are great consumers of organic products,” stated Edson Shiguemoto, commercial manager at Korin. According to him, the company has already exported green chicken to Japan and believes that organic chicken will be even more successful.
“The organic chicken made by Korin supplies a growing number of people concerned with good feeding habits, aligned to environmental and social sustainability, characteristic of the certified organic production system,” stated Shiguemoto. Apart from organic feeding, the birds also graze. “This method increases the animals’ well-being, resulting in a more healthy bird with better taste and more pleasant texture,” he explained.
As the cost of the raw material used, organic maize and soy, is around three times more expensive than conventional feed, each kilogram of organic chicken should cost between 10 and 11 Brazilian Reais (US$ 5.65 and US$ 6.25) for end consumers. Korin believes that initial production should be around 20 tones of meat a day.
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