Colombia: Profit from pigs, sheep and goats rose in the first quarter of 2022

The number of heads of pigs, sheep and goats sent for slaughter in the first three months of 2022 was higher than in the same period of 2021. The slaughter of pigs has continued its growing behavior in recent months, while the other two species had a remarkable recovery. The formal slaughter of pigs grew 3% compared to the same quarter of the previous year, totaling 1,263,609 heads, according to the Livestock Slaughter Survey (ESG) of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) These were 36,995 heads than the 1,226,614 registered in the same period of 2021, while compared to the same period of 2020, the increase was 8.3%, when 1,167,181 pigs were reported. The DANE technical bulletin highlights that the slaughter of females grew 9.4%, while that of males remained stable (-0.2%). (Read: In 2021 the benefit of pigs continued to grow, that of goats was almost the same and that of sheep contracted) Compared to the data for 2020, the slaughter of males rose 6.3% and ...