On November 3, 2023, 5.84 million pigs had been stored on pig farms in North Rhine-Westphalia in keeping with initial effects. In step with Knowledge and Generation North Rhine-Westphalia, the state statistical place of job, in keeping with the consultant pig census, the choice of pigs higher by way of 0.9% in comparison to November 2022 (then: 5.79 million pigs). In the similar length, the choice of farms with a minimal herd of fifty pigs or ten breeding sows fell additional to five,350 farms (-5.8%). In 2013, there have been nonetheless 8,227 pig farms. This corresponds to a lower of 35.0% in comparison to November 2023.
The typical farm measurement thus higher from 1,018 to at least one,092 pigs between November 2022 and November 2023. Ten years previous, a North Rhine-Westphalian farm stored a mean of 896 pigs.
An build up of one.5% to at least one.17 million animals was once recorded for fattening pigs weighing between 50 and beneath 80 kilograms in comparison to November 2022. General, the choice of fattening pigs fell by way of 0.2% to two.75 million animals, the bottom degree prior to now ten years. At 47.1%, fattening pigs accounted for slightly below part of the overall pig inhabitants in November 2023.
Against this, there have been will increase within the choice of piglets (1.65 million; +1.8%), breeding pigs over 50 kilograms liveweight (339,300 animals; +1.7%), and younger pigs (1.09 million animals; +2.2%).
December 13, 2023/ Knowledge and Generation North Rhine-Westphalia/ Germany.
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