World meat industry news

The Animal Husbandry and Life magazine reports that, according to the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), in January, agricultural organizations increased the production of livestock and poultry for slaughter by 6.9% year-on-year, to 1.07 million tons in live weight.

In particular, in January 81.2 thousand tons of cattle (+3%), 429.5 thousand tons of pigs (+9.6%), 1.87 thousand tons of sheep and goats (+55.5%) were sent to the slaughterhouse. ), 550.4 thousand tons of poultry (+5.3%) and 1.9 thousand tons of other farm animals (+13%).

At the end of January, the number of cattle kept on the farms of agricultural organizations decreased by 0.4% year-on-year to 7.906 million, including 3.18 million cows (-0.3%). The number of pigs for the year increased by 7% - up to 25.97 million. The number of small cattle amounted to 3 million (+1.3%). The number of birds increased by 2.2% - up to 470.85 million heads. The total number of horses was 219.18 thousand (-3%).