Fewer pigs leads to lower meat production in Germany

Published 2024년 2월 21일

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Preliminary figures from Destatis predict a 4% decrease in meat production from German slaughterhouses in 2023, with an expected output of 6.8 million tons. This is largely due to a 6.8% drop in pork production, attributed to a shrinking pig herd. Despite a slight decrease in the number of cattle slaughtered, beef production saw a minor increase due to a rise in average slaughter weight. Poultry meat production also increased by 1.4% to 1.6 million tons, primarily driven by a surge in broiler chicken production.

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German slaughterhouses will have produced a total of 6.8 million tons of meat in 2023. This is evident from preliminary figures from the German statistics agency Destatis. That is 4 percent, or 280,200 tons, less than a year earlier. A peak was reached in 2016, with 8.25 million tons. Since then production has been declining. In 2022, production was even 8.1 percent lower than the year before. Last year, a total of 47.9 million pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses and 702.2 million chickens, turkeys and ducks were slaughtered in the slaughterhouses. The first category mainly concerns pigs: 43.8 million animals in 2023. This is 7 percent, or 3.3 million animals, less than a year earlier. Less from our own country The number of pigs slaughtered from domestic origin even fell by 7.7 percent last year to 42.3 million animals. The number of imported pigs slaughtered in Germany increased by 19.5 percent to 1.5 million animals in 2023. In total, the slaughterhouses produced ...

Source: Nieuwe Oogst