Impacto de la política de abastecimiento de carne bovina en Venezuela, 1997-2014

摘要

This article aims to analyze, based on secondary sources, main effects of economic and sectorial agro-food policies on the supply of beef in Venezuela during the 1997-2014 period. Main findings show that domestic beef production decreased at 2.22% as annual rate between the 1997-2014 period (even considering the slaughter of imports animals). The amount of meat from slaughter of imports animals grew to a maximum of 58.51% of total slaughter in 2014. This represented and real decline of the domestic production of 66.67% between 1997 and 2014. In this context, the per capita domestic production decreased of 18.31 kg/capita in 1997 to minimum 3.97 kg/capita in 2013. To supply the domestic demand meat importsaugmented to 0,59 carcass weight equivalent (CWE) thousand tons (1000 MT CWE) in 1997 for a maximum of 307,57 1000 MT CWE in 2008. The bovine meat equivalent import penetration rate (meat and live animals) was of 79.54% of total domestic demand in 2013 (about 15.45 kg/capita/year).