Germany: Meat production down 4 percent in 2023

Published 2024년 2월 13일

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In 2023, there was a significant decline in meat production, particularly in pork, with a 6.8% decrease in production and a 7.0% decrease in the number of pigs slaughtered. Despite this, beef production remained stable due to increased average slaughter weights. Poultry meat production saw a slight increase of 1.4%, mainly driven by a 1.1% increase in young broiler meat production.

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After comparatively slight declines from 2017, meat production fell by 8.1% in 2022 compared to the previous year, and now meat production fell again significantly in 2023. A total of 47.9 million pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses as well as 702.2 million chickens, turkeys and ducks were slaughtered in slaughterhouses in 2023. Pork: slaughter volume decreased by 6.8% With 43.8 million animals slaughtered in 2023, the number of pigs slaughtered fell by 7.0% or 3.3 million compared to the previous year. The number of pigs of domestic origin slaughtered fell by 7.7% to almost 42.3 million animals. The number of imported pigs slaughtered in German slaughterhouses, however, rose by 19.5% to 1.5 million animals. In total, slaughterhouses produced around 4.2 million tons of pork in 2023. That was 6.8% or 306,500 tons less than in 2022. Compared to the record year of 2016, around 1.4 million tonnes less pork were produced in 2023, which corresponds to a decline of over a quarter ...

Source: EuroMeat