Paraguay’s Cattle Industry
Paraguay — Cattle Industry
Population
1990: 4035747; 2025: 7013078
Cattle inventory
1990: 8253900; 2024: 13630216 An
FAOSTAT (Production: Crops and livestock products)
Beef production
1990: 189000; 2024: 427139.78 t
FAOSTAT (Production: Crops and livestock products)
Beef imports
1990: 2.6; 2024: 11498.4 t
FAOSTAT (Trade: Crops and livestock products)
Beef exports
1990: 105957.6; 2024: 486546.25 t
FAOSTAT (Trade: Crops and livestock products)
Beef slaughtered
1990: 1049620; 2024: 2311339 An
FAOSTAT (Production: Crops and livestock products)
Beef offtake rate
1991: 15.9; 2024: 17 %
Derived as head slaughtered ÷ total cattle inventory × 100.
Derived from FAOSTAT cattle inventory and slaughter
Selected grain and feed imports
Supplier breakdown from the FAOSTAT Detailed Trade Matrix, latest year with recorded import value per country; feed items summed. Reported by the importing country.
FAOSTAT (Trade: Crops and livestock products)
Maize (corn)
1991: 96 tonnes; 2024: 21363.66 tonnes
Wheat
1991: 22262 tonnes; 2024: 28.65 tonnes
Barley
Baseline: Unavailable tonnes; 2023: 22 tonnes
Sorghum
1991: 114 tonnes; 2024: 881.39 tonnes
Oats
1991: 0 tonnes; 2024: 255.91 tonnes
Soya beans
1991: 7681 tonnes; 2024: 6277.08 tonnes
Cake of soya beans
1991: 0 tonnes; 2024: 168.03 tonnes