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Czech Republic - Moderate year-on-year decrease in meat production

In the 2nd quarter of 2010, 136 593 tonnes of meat were produced and 585 478 thousand litres of milk were purchased; i.e. a decrease in both meat production (by 3.4 %) and milk collection (by 2.4 %) y-o-y. The production declined in all of main kinds of meat: in beef, pig meat, and poultry (by 1.4 %, 4.6 %, and 2.3 %, respectively).
26 October 2010
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In the 2nd quarter of 2010, 136 593 tonnes of meat were produced and 585 478 thousand litres of milk were purchased; i.e. a decrease in both meat production (by 3.4 %) and milk collection (by 2.4 %) y-o-y. The production declined in all of main kinds of meat: in beef, pig meat, and poultry (by 1.4 %, 4.6 %, and 2.3 %, respectively).

Slaughtering and pork production

Pig meat production declined y-o-y by 4.6 %, while number of pigs for slaughter went down (by 5.7 %) but number of slaughtered sows went up (by 2.6 %). In total, 68 603 tonnes of pig meat were produced in 2nd quarter.

Total production of poultry meat reached 49 316 tonnes; it was lower by 2.3 % compared with the same period of the last year.

Results of pig rearing

Pig numbers were lower by 3.2 % than in the same period of the previous year; they went down by 62.2 thousand heads to 1 909,2 thousand heads in total. Number of sows declined by 6.7 % (by 9.5 thousand heads), whereas a number of gilts increased by 5.3 % (by 2.9 thousand heads).

http://www.czso.cz/eng/csu.nsf/informace/azem072910.doc

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