Brazilian chicken meat exports grew 3.22 percent by volume in 2011, to 3.942 million MT. Chicken cuts exports, which responded for 52 percent of the global exported volume, grew almost 5 percent; whole carcasses, 38 percent of the total, and salted meat, 4.89 percent of the total, grew below the average, while processed meat, 4.5 percent of the total, grew 6.5 percent.