Norway: Record import of pork and ribs

The total import of meat from pigs, cattle, sheep and chicken was 25,360 tonnes last year. This is an increase of almost 11,000 tonnes, or 76 per cent, from the previous year, writes Nationen, which has led the Norwegian Directorate of Agriculture to collect figures from Statistics Norway. This means that every Norwegian on average ate almost five kilos of imported meat last year. Pork has had the largest increase. A total of 7,730 tonnes of pork were imported last year. It is the highest recorded on the statistics, which dates back to the turn of the millennium, and is over three times as much as in 2019. - This is a result of the corona pandemic, that we have more people within the borders and that border trade makes up a good part of meat consumption to normal, says director Ole Nikolai Skulberg in ...