The slaughtering of pigs between January and November 2016 reached a new historic record, adding up 5,442,373 heads, entailing a rise by 8.45% in comparison with the same period in 2015, when 5,018,458 heads were slaughtered.
In this sense, the production of pork rose by 7.32% during the first 11 months of 2016, reaching 472,696 tonnes in carcass weight with bone.
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On the other hand, the domestic consumption is still growing, reaching an average of 12.47 kg per inhabitant and year.
Monday, 26 December 2016/ Ministry of Agriculture/ Argentina.
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