11 July 2024
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Bulgaria’s poultry sector stagnated in 2023. The 12 months started with upper collection of broilers, in step with a up to date US Division of Agriculture (USDA) International Agricultural Data Community (GAIN) document. Then again, because of manufacturing comparable demanding situations reminiscent of prime feed grain, power, and labour prices in addition to meals inflation, it ended with about 11% decrease broiler numbers. Broiler meat slaughter and manufacturing used to be strong at round 90,500 MT.
The duck meat sector carried out higher regardless of a number of HPAI outbreaks and witnessed an 18% enlargement in finishing chook numbers. Slaughtering used to be upper and led to an 11% build up in duck meat output, emerging to 24,900 MT.
Because of the above trends, overall poultry numbers on the finish of 2023 declined via 6.4% from 2022, whilst the overall poultry meat manufacturing (advertisement and non-commercial) had a small enlargement of two.4% over 2022 to 122,000 MT. Business poultry meat output on my own grew via 1.1% to 121,000 MT.
Home poultry meat intake grew via 8.2% to a brand new file prime of over 190,000 MT following the stagnation skilled in 2022 and used to be supported via greater imports. Poultry meat imports in 2023 had over 10% enlargement pushed via extra dynamic client call for, basically on the meals provider trade.
Imports of hen meat represented 95% of overall poultry imports at 102,000 MT, with simplest small imports of about 6,000 MT of different kinds of poultry meat (basically turkey meat), whilst duck meat imports have been insignificant.