Germany: Meat production in the first half of 2022 fell by 7.9% compared to the previous year

05.08.2022 | 11:36:00 | ID: 33781 | Department: Agriculture | agricultural economics Wiesbaden (agrar-PR) - According to preliminary results, commercial slaughterhouses in Germany produced almost 3.5 million tons of meat in the first half of 2022. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), this was 7.9% less than in the same period last year. A total of 25.8 million pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses and 353.2 million chickens, turkeys and ducks were slaughtered in the slaughterhouses in the first half of 2022. 10.1% less pork than in the first half of 2021In the first six months of the year, German farms slaughtered 23.8 million pigs. This corresponds to a decrease of around 2.3 million animals slaughtered or 8.9% compared to the previous year. The amount of pork produced in the first half of 2022 was 2.3 million tons, 10.1% lower than in the same period last year (-253,800 tons). The average slaughter weight of the pigs also fell by just over a kilogram to ...