France: An encouraging start to 2023 for the poultry sector

Anvol, the national inter-professional broiler poultry association, has published the first figures for the year 2023. “They confirm the enthusiasm of the French for poultry”, indicates with obvious relief the inter-professional association. The latter has just gone through two difficult years, marked by avian influenza, which affected nearly 30 million broiler poultry, from 2021 to mid-2023. A parenthesis that professionals hope to be closing. In any case, this is what the figures indicate: “over the first five months of 2023, poultry consumption in France increases by +1.4% compared to the same period, indicates Anvol in a press release . An increase driven in particular by the resumption of catering while in-store sales stabilize at -0.4% in the first half of 2023, compared to 2022.” This growth is made possible by the success of chicken, whose overall consumption increased by +4.2% over five months. However, warns Anvol, “the situation is more complicated for other species, ...