Agriculture - August 2005
Decrease in meat production ended
Publication Date: 27. 09. 2005
Product Code: r-2101-05
In August , after a sixteen-month decrease year-on-year, meat production total (excl. poultry meat) went up by 1.1 % year-on-year due to increase in pigmeat production by 2.7 %. Beef production (incl. veal) decreased by 5.4 % in this month year-on-year.
The average slaughter weight increased by 0.8 % to 595.9 kg for bulls and by 0.8 % to 105.3 kg for pigs for slaughter (excl. sows and boars) year-on-year.
Prices of agricultural producers rose up by 7.8 % for bulls for slaughter year-on-year, on the contrary the same prices went down by 7.5 % for pigs for slaughter.
Milk collection for dairies went up by 1.5 % year-on-year.
Since the beginning of the year meat production total (excl. poultry meat) has decreased by 14.7 % year-on-year due to both decreases in pigmeat and beef production (incl. veal) by 13.1 % and 21.0 %, respectively. A fall of indigenous meat production was compensated for imports of meat and animals for slaughter.
The average slaughter weight went down by 0.5 % to 585.7 kg for bulls for slaughter year-on-year, in case of pigs for slaughter (excl. sows and boars) the weight fall by 2.2 % to 106.0 kg.
Prices of agricultural producers rose by 9.2 % for bulls for slaughter year-on-year, in case of pigs for slaughter the prices rose by 5.7 %.
Milk collected for dairies increased by 0.8 % year-on-year.
Methodical note:
Contact person: Jiří Hrbek, phone 27405 2331, e-mail: hrbek@gw.czso.cz
Source: full survey carried out by the Czech Statistical Office, Agricultural Producer Price Indices in August 2005 (CSO).
Milk collection – full survey conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Date of completing data collection: 12 September 2005
Date of completing data processing: 23 September 2005
Follow up publication: 2110-04 Monthly Overview of Livestock Slaughter in August 2005 (also /1-ep-2 )
These data are final.
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