Updated profiles on the keeping of farm animals in Germany

11/22/2021 | 14:47:00 | ID: 31570 | Department: Agriculture | animal Braunschweig (agrar-PR) - New facts and figures on the keeping of pigs, cattle, poultry and aquaculture animals in Germany How many tons of meat are produced in Germany? What are the operational structures like, what is the demand? The Thünen profiles on animal husbandry have been providing comprehensive information on this since 2017. The profiles are updated annually and in the version available now also take into account data up to 2020. In addition to pigs, cattle and poultry, there is also a profile on aquaculture. The overviews show that production, consumption and exports have developed very differently in the individual animal categories. Poultry meat production has developed dynamically in the past few years, while pig production, after a steady increase, is increasingly declining until 2016. In a year-on-year comparison between 2021 and 2020 alone, stocks fell by 3.5%. This is likely to be due to the ...