Last year Nicaragua slaughtered 259,427 pigs, an increase of 10% compared to 2018 and 8% higher than 2017.
During the last 5 years, Nicaragua's pork production has shown a sustained average growth of 8% year-on-year and a 49% growth when compared to 2014. Pork production was 13,400 tons, an increase of 8.3% over the previous year and 9.6% over 2017.
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In relation to the data from the first two months of this year, 40,710 pigs have been slaughtered, resulting in 2131 tons of pork produced, an increase of 2.4% over the same period last year.
March 2020/ 333 Staff with information from El 19 Digital.
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