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In terms of livestock production, individual OIC countries were only top producers for buffalo
meat, camel meat, game meat and horse meat (se . In 2012, OIC countries imported
US$ 15.4 billion of meat and life animal products and exported only US$ 1.5 billion.
Table 3-2 OIC countries as top livestock producers, average 1993-2013
Product Production
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Buffalo meat India Pakistan China Egypt Nepal
Camel meat Sudan Saudi Arabia Somalia Egypt Kenya
Game meat Papua New Guinea USA Nigeria Cote d’Ivoire DRC
Goat meat China India Pakistan Nigeria Bangladesh
Horsemeat China Mexico Kazakhstan Russia Argentina
Source: FAOSTAT, 2015
In 2012, OIC countries imported US$ 15.4 billion of meat and life animal products and
exported only US$ 1.5 billion. The biggest importers were Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and
Malaysia (se . Data suggest that there is a huge potential for the development of
value chains around halal meat, which can also be exported to markets outside the OIC where
many Muslims live. Reuters & Dinar Standard (2015) estimates that global Muslim spending
on food and beverages increased by 10.8 percent to reach US$ 1.29 billion in 2013. This would
take the potential core Halal food market to be 17.7 percent of global expenditure in 2013.
The impact of the growing interest in the Halal food market on global logistics should not be
underestimated. Full traceability of Halal products is increasingly becoming a concern, with
recent Halal integrity issues in China, pork DNA found in Halal burgers in UK schools, horse
meat scandals, and so on. The estimated logistic costs for the potential global Halal food
market were US$ 151 billion in 2013 (Reuters & Dinar Standard, 2015).
Brazil is currently the major supplier of meat and live animals to OIC countries. The Brazil
Food Company is among the world’s largest food companies and a major Halal market
supplier. It opened its first manufacturing site in the Middle East in Abu Dhabi in 2014. The
factory processes poultry from Brazil for repackaging and shipping to other countries.
shows the top exporting countries of meat and live animals to the OIC.
Figure 3-10 Top importers of meat and live animals in the OIC, 2013
Source: Reuters & Dinar Standard, 2015
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