Swine manufacturing in France has reflected the craze in cattle numbers in 2023, with a 5.2% lower within the choice of heads and a 4.4% lower in quantity in comparison to 2022. In 10 years, the choice of pigs slaughtered in France has fallen through 7.6%, representing a lack of 1.8 million pigs between 2013 (23.7 million head) and 2023 (21.9 million head).
Carcass weights in 2023 will go back to a degree very similar to 2021 (94.4 kg) once they lowered in 2022 (to 93.7 kg). This example, which marks a go back to nearly steady expansion in weight for over ten years, displays a much less nerve-racking marketplace because of falling call for. As a result, when put next with 2022, slaughter has fallen extra sharply in the case of choice of heads (-4.8%) than in quantity (-4.1%). With beef manufacturing down to two.1 million tonnes of carcass identical in 2023, France stays Europe’s third-largest manufacturer, in the back of Spain (4.9 million carcass, down 4.5%) and Germany (4.2 million carcass, down 8.6%).
March 2024/ Markets for dairy, meat and poultry merchandise. Bilan 2023/ France AgriMer/ France.
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