Hungary: The domestic turkey sector needs a market, cooperation and marketing

Our country was recently among the largest turkey-consuming nations in the world. In recent years, there has been a sharp decrease in the number of holding places and sector livestock keepers. Although domestic turkey meat products are safe and of good quality, the sector faces many challenges. The Hungarian poultry sector is the livestock sector with the highest production value: with the production of 700,000 tons of slaughter poultry and the production of around 1.2 billion table eggs, it produces a raw material value of 500-550 billion. Within the poultry sector, the turkey's share of the production of slaughter animals in 2022 was a narrow 13%, which is approximately half of the value in 2002 (27%), according to the annual summary of the Hungarian Turkey Association. The decreasing ratio can be partly attributed to the lower production volume and partly to the intensive growth of the chicken and roast duck sectors. Although the entire turkey sector is going through a ...