France: An encouraging start to 2023 for the poultry sector

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Published Sep 19, 2023

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The French poultry industry has experienced two difficult years due to avian influenza, but recent figures show that poultry consumption in France has increased by 1.4% in the first five months of 2023, driven by the resumption of catering. Chicken consumption has seen a significant increase of 4.2%, while other poultry species such as turkeys, guinea fowl, and roasting ducks continue to face challenges due to the epizootic. The industry is calling for action to combat the influx of low-cost imports and is launching a vaccination campaign for waterfowl to protect production from avian influenza.

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Anvol, the national inter-professional broiler poultry association, has published the first figures for the year 2023. “They confirm the enthusiasm of the French for poultry”, indicates with obvious relief the inter-professional association. The latter has just gone through two difficult years, marked by avian influenza, which affected nearly 30 million broiler poultry, from 2021 to mid-2023. A parenthesis that professionals hope to be closing. In any case, this is what the figures indicate: “over the first five months of 2023, poultry consumption in France increases by +1.4% compared to the same period, indicates Anvol in a press release . An increase driven in particular by the resumption of catering while in-store sales stabilize at -0.4% in the first half of 2023, compared to 2022.” This growth is made possible by the success of chicken, whose overall consumption increased by +4.2% over five months. However, warns Anvol, “the situation is more complicated for other species, ...

Source: Processalimentaire