In the third quarter of 2011, 15.2 million pigs were commercially slaughtered in Germany, that was 3.5% or 521,000 animals more than in the same quarter a year earlier.
As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), this exceeded the previous record number of pig slaughterings of the fourth quarter of 2010 (just under 15.1 million pigs).
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Compared with the previous year, the slaughterings of pigs of domestic origin in the third quarter 2011 rose 4.5%, while those of imported pigs were down 5.7%. The total quantity of pork produced was up 4.3% to 1.42 million tonnes compared with the same period of the previous year.
Monday November 14, 2011/ Destatis/ Germany.
http://www.destatis.de/