Agriculture - December 2005
Decrease in meat production continued
Publication Date: 26. 01. 2006
Product Code: r-2101-05
It was produced 36 272 tons of meat (excl. poultry) in carcass weight in December 2005. This amount included 6 979 tons of beef and 29 273 tons of pigmeat. Meat production total went down by 5.5 % compared to the same month of the previous year. Milk collection for dairies decreased by 5.0 % year-on-year and accounted for 194 201 ths of litres.
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Pigmeat production decreased by 6.0 % and beef production incl. veal went down by 3.8 % year-on-year.
The average slaughter weight was increased year-on-year by 3.2 % to 595.8 kg for bulls. On the other hand the weight of pigs for slaughter (excl. sows and boars) decreased by 0.2 % to 105.1 kg year-on-year.
Prices of agricultural producers rose up by 4.0 % for bulls for slaughter year-on-year, on the contrary the same prices went down by 7.7 % for pigs for slaughter.
Since the beginning of the year meat production total (excl. poultry meat) has decreased by 11.1 % year-on-year due to both decreases in pigmeat and beef production (incl. veal) by 9.8 % and 16.2 %, respectively. A decrease in indigenous meat production was connected with the increase in meat imports.
The average slaughter weight went up by 0.7 % to 590.4 kg for bulls for slaughter year-on-year, in case of pigs for slaughter (excl. sows and boars) the weight fall by 1.6 % to 105.9 kg.
Prices of agricultural producers have risen by 7.4 % for bulls for slaughter year-on-year, in case of pigs for slaughter the prices have decreased by 1.6 %.
Milk collected for dairies decreased by 0.8 % year-on-year.
Analysis - Trends of meat production and milk collection in the 4th quarter of 2005 and in 2005
Methodical note:
Contact person: Jiří Hrbek, phone 27405 2331, e-mail: jiri.hrbek@csu.gov.cz
Source: full survey carried out by the Czech Statistical Office, Agricultural Producer Price Indices in December 2005 (CZSO).
Milk collection – full survey conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Date of completing data collection: 10 January 2006
Date of completing data processing: 24 January 2006
Follow up publication: 2110-05 Monthly Overview of Livestock Slaughter in December 2005
These data are final.
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