Argentina: Significant increase in slaughter in first half of the year

Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, and Cordoba continue to account for more than 80% of the country's slaughter.

Graph 1. Cumulative pig slaughter in the first half of the year by province. Prepared by 333 Latin America with data from the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Ministry of Economy of Argentina.

The total number of pigs slaughtered in the first half of the year was 3,938,813 head, an increase of 5.6% with respect to the same period of the previous year.

80.2% of the animals slaughtered during the period were hogs.

The results by province indicate that Buenos Aires accounted for 50.4% of the slaughter, reaching 1,985,841 head, while Santa Fe and Córdoba accounted for 18.7% and 15.8%, respectively.

Specifically for the month of June, slaughter reached 670,880 head and represented an increase of 0.8% compared to the same month of 2022 and a decrease of 4.4% compared to May.

July 12, 2023/ 333 Latin America/ Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Ministry of Economy of Argentina/ Argentina.
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