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France: Professionals face rising production and import costs in the poultry market

France
Published Sep 13, 2022

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“If the sector has taken drastic measures to ensure the resumption of production in the best conditions, it calls for citizen purchasing to support it and enable it to contribute to French food sovereignty”, comments the poultry interprofessional of flesh, ANVOL, which reviews the poultry market in France.

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“If the sector has taken drastic measures to ensure the resumption of production in the best conditions, it calls for citizen purchasing to support it and enable it to contribute to French food sovereignty”, comments the poultry interprofession of flesh, ANVOL, which reviews the poultry market in France. The country's overall poultry consumption (home and away from home) in 2021 returned to pre-covid growth and increased by +2.1% in volume. Each inhabitant consumed about 28.5 kg over the year, mainly chickens (76%). A great dynamic undermined by the unprecedented episode of avian influenza that affected the poultry sector at the start of the year. France, the 2nd poultry producing country in the European Union in 2021, should thus move to 4th place with a supply reduced by -9.7% in 2022. Indeed, beyond their mobilization to restart the sector, professionals face two major challenges. They face an unprecedented increase in production costs, which reaches +45 to +50% in two years ...
Source: AgroMedia
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