Germany: Meat production down 8.1% in 2022

08.02.2023 | 11:52:00 | ID: 35423 | Department: Agriculture | agricultural economics Wiesbaden (agrar-PR) - Meat production in Germany fell sharply in 2022. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), commercial slaughterhouses produced 7.0 million tonnes of meat in 2022 according to preliminary results. That was 8.1% or 0.6 million tonnes less than in the previous year. This means that domestic meat production fell every year after the record year 2016 (8.3 million tons), but never as much as in 2022. In total, 51.2 million pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses and 701 .4 million chickens, turkeys and ducks slaughtered. Pork: slaughtered quantity down by 9.8% With 47.0 million animals slaughtered in 2022, the number of pigs slaughtered fell by 9.2% or 4.8 million compared to the previous year. The number of slaughtered pigs of domestic origin fell by 9.6% to almost 45.8 million animals. After the significant decline in 2021, the number of imported pigs slaughtered ...