Germany: Meat production in the first half of 2022 fell by 7.9% compared to the previous year

Published 2022년 8월 5일

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Preliminary results for the first half of 2022 show a significant decrease in meat production in Germany's commercial slaughterhouses, with a 7.9% drop compared to the same period in the previous year. The total production was nearly 3.5 million tons, distributed across 25.8 million pigs, 1.4 million cattle, and 353.2 million chickens, turkeys, and ducks. Pork production saw a 10.1% decrease, with a reduction in both the number of pigs slaughtered and the pork produced. Beef production also declined by 9.1%, and poultry meat production slightly by 0.2%. Pork continues to dominate as the largest contribution to Germany's meat production, accounting for 64.3% of the total in the first half of 2022.

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05.08.2022 | 11:36:00 | ID: 33781 | Department: Agriculture | agricultural economics Wiesbaden (agrar-PR) - According to preliminary results, commercial slaughterhouses in Germany produced almost 3.5 million tons of meat in the first half of 2022. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), this was 7.9% less than in the same period last year. A total of 25.8 million pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses and 353.2 million chickens, turkeys and ducks were slaughtered in the slaughterhouses in the first half of 2022. 10.1% less pork than in the first half of 2021In the first six months of the year, German farms slaughtered 23.8 million pigs. This corresponds to a decrease of around 2.3 million animals slaughtered or 8.9% compared to the previous year. The amount of pork produced in the first half of 2022 was 2.3 million tons, 10.1% lower than in the same period last year (-253,800 tons). The average slaughter weight of the pigs also fell by just over a kilogram to ...

Source: Agrar