Venezuelan poultry farming has made a strong comeback this week. Francisco Tagliapietra, president of the National Poultry Federation of Venezuela (Fenavi), confirmed that the sector has moved past the stage of simple recovery and is now aiming at a much more ambitious goal: selling chicken and eggs abroad. For PitbullChain, this news is not just about agriculture: it’s a snapshot of how real money moves in the Venezuelan economy.
📊 The figures that back the optimism
According to the guild, egg consumption reached 200 units per capita per year, calculated on an estimated population of 28.5 million inhabitants. For chicken meat, consumption is projected at 32 kilos per person per year. Last year, production was about 825,000 tons, and the estimate for this exercise exceeds 900,000 tons. That is, double-digit growth in just twelve months.
Tagliapietra was clear: the country is fully stocked. Consumption levels from 2013 have already been surpassed, a fact that many analysts had said was impossible after years of brutal contraction in purchasing power. In fact, the poultry sector became one of the few areas that sustains volume with prices relatively anchored to the dollar.
📈 The problem isn’t selling: it’s producing more
What’s striking about the report is where the bottlenecks are. It’s not demand, not price, and not imported competition. According to Fenavi’s own president, poultry farmers need cement and concrete to expand sheds, and stable electricity to operate the facilities.
🔎 Two inputs, the same problem: access to dollars
Cement, concrete, power plants, spare parts, machinery, vaccines, and balanced feed. Almost all of that is paid—fully or partially—in foreign currency. And that’s where the Venezuelan P2P market comes into the spotlight with a naturalness that nobody disputes anymore.
Today, an agricultural producer who needs to move 5,000 dollars for a batch of inputs rarely goes to a bank counter. They do it with a supplier who charges in USDT, with a complementary mobile payment, or with a mix of both. Venezuelan digital banking, although it has improved in speed and platform, is still limited by operating thresholds, currency-exchange commissions, and the eternal gap between the BCV’s official exchange rate and the real price in the parallel market.
That gap is, literally, a production cost. Every time a poultry farmer buys an imported input, they pay the international reference price and then need to convert bolívares to dollars—the differential eats into part of the margin. USDT, since it trades freely and settles in minutes, works as a shock absorber.
💰 ABC Islands: the corridor the crypto ecosystem should look at
Fenavi points to Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao as pilot markets for exports, with the goal of concrete action before 2030. For Venezuelan foreign trade, that corridor has a key feature: they are dollarized economies or tied to the florin, with mass tourism and a considerable Venezuelan community.
Put into payment language: they are places where getting paid in USDT is perfectly viable, where exchanges and crypto exchange houses exist, and where a Venezuelan exporter can invoice without depending on international banking correspondent services—the most fragile point of any foreign trade operation from Venezuela.
It’s not far-fetched to imagine that, in a few years, poultry supply chains will be getting paid in stablecoins by distributors in Curaçao and paying their feed suppliers in the same format. P2P stops being a survival tool and becomes commercial infrastructure.
🛡️ What to watch from the USDT trench
For Venezuelan crypto users, Fenavi’s report leaves three concrete signals:
⚠️ 1. The price of chicken as an exchange-rate thermometer
When a mass-consumption category grows, it gets stocked and keeps prices in dollars; it usually indicates that the parallel exchange rate is relatively stable. If the price per kilo of chicken starts rising in bolívares faster than in USDT, the market is reading exchange-rate pressure before the BCV publishes it.
🧭 2. More real liquidity for P2P
An agroindustry that exports generates fresh dollars that enter both the informal and formal circuits. That can increase the supply of USDT in the local market and reduce spreads, especially in peer-to-peer exchanges with commercial counterparties—not just retail users.
⚙️ 3. Banking will have to move
📖 Read the full article: https://pitbullchain.com/noticias/900-000-toneladas-de-pollo-la-lectura-cripto-del-boom-avicola-venezolano-487464
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