Bovine and buffalo slaughter falls in Colombia, according to data until November 2022

The slaughter of bovines continued its downward trend one month before the end of 2022, with a drop of 6.1% compared to 2021 and one of 9.2% compared to 2019. Throughout this year, the benefit with destination for export was the hardest hit, with a decrease of more than 30%. According to the Livestock Slaughter Survey of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), in the eleventh month of 2022, 261,308 head of cattle were benefited, as well as 3,697 head of buffalo cattle, for a total of 265,005 animals. Adding the data for the entire year except the month of December, a total of 2,821,508 cattle and 35,624 buffaloes have been sent to slaughter. This is how they compare to previous years. (Read: This was the results of the slaughter of bovines and buffaloes at the end of the 3rd quarter) Cattle slaughter in October 2022 The ESAG revealed that in November the slaughter of cattle fell 7% compared to the 281,111 registered in the same month of 2021. The decrease is ...