In line with initial information, the pig stock in December 2023 was once 9769.7 thousand, an build up of one.5% in comparison to the similar length remaining yr. A lower within the pig stock took place in a single crew of pigs, pigs for slaughter (-2.1%).
In comparison to the pig herd in June 2023, there have been 333,000 extra heads (+3.5%).
In comparison to December 2022, the herd of sows for slaughter higher via 70.7 thousand head (+11.9%) to 663.3 thousand head, of which the stock of gestating sows higher via 51.7 thousand head (+12.8%) to 456.5 thousand head. In comparison to June 2023, the choice of breeding sows higher via 72.7 thousand head (+12.3%), together with gestating sows, up via 34.6 thousand head (+8.2%.)
Within the construction of the entire swine herd, the proportion of each and every manufacturing and use crew in December 2023 was once:
- Piglets weighing as much as 20 kg: 20.5%,
- Piglets weighing 20-50 kg: 29.0%,
- Pigs weighing 50 kg and over, for slaughter: 43,5%,
- Pigs weighing 50 kilograms or extra, for breeding: 6,9%, (together with: sows for overall rearing 6.8%, together with farrowing sows 4.7%)
When put next with the pig inhabitants construction registered at the start of December 2022, in 2023 the proportion of piglets higher (via 0.9%), sows for rearing via 0.6%, pigs for breeding (via 0.6%), and gestating sows (0.5%). On the other hand, the proportion of pigs for slaughter lowered (via 1.6%), and the proportion of piglets was once the similar as within the corresponding length.
From January-November 2023 (consistent with initial information), imports of reside pigs totaled 6851,700 head, 6.7% upper than in the similar length a yr in the past, of which imports of piglets and growers increased via 9.0%. The common weight of 1 imported head all the way through the length was once 33.7 kilograms, in comparison to 35.5 kilograms in 2022.
The most important stocks of the nationwide pig inhabitants had been held via the provinces of Wielkopolska (28.7%), Mazowieckie (13.6%), Kujawsko-Pomorskie (10.4%), Łódzkie (10.3%), and Pomorskie (8.3%). The provinces with the smallest stocks had been Lubuskie (1.0%), Podkarpackie (1.0%), and Małopolskie (1.3%).
January 31, 2024/ GUS/ Poland.
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