Based on preliminary information from the Federal Statistical Workplace (Destatis), meat manufacturing in Germany elevated by 1.4% in 2024 in comparison with the earlier yr. German business slaughterhouses produced 6.9 million tons of meat in 2024 (+97,200 tons in comparison with 2023), marking the primary enhance in nationwide meat manufacturing since 2016 (8.4 million tons) after seven consecutive years of declines. In whole, 48.7 million head of pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, and horses, in addition to 693.3 million chickens, turkeys, and geese, had been slaughtered in 2024.
German pig slaughterhouses processed 44.6 million head in 2024, a rise of 1.2% or 531,300 head in comparison with the earlier yr. The variety of domestically raised pigs slaughtered elevated by 1.6%, reaching 43.3 million head. Nonetheless, the variety of imported pigs slaughtered in German slaughterhouses decreased by 9.2%, to 1.3 million head.
In whole, German slaughterhouses produced round 4.3 million tons of pork in 2024, representing a 1.9% enhance or 80,500 tons greater than in 2023. Nonetheless, this determine is 1.3 million tons lower than the report yr of 2016, reflecting a virtually 25% decline.
February 7, 2025/ Destatis/ Germany.
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