Agriculture - January 2005
Decrease in meat production goes on
Publication Date: 25. 02. 2005
Product Code: r-2101-05
Meat production total (excl. poultry meat) went down 17.4 % in January year-on-year due to both decreases in pigmeat and beef production (incl. veal) by 16.3 % and 21.5 %, respectively.
The average slaughter weight increased 1.4 % to 584.2 kg for bulls and for pigs for slaughter (excl. sows and boars) decreased 4.0 % to 106.7 kg year-on-year.
Prices of agricultural producers rose by 9.0 % for bulls for slaughter year-on-year and for pigs for slaughter by 37.6 %.
Milk collection for dairies went up 0.6 % year-on-year.
Methodical note:
Source: full survey carried out by the Czech Statistical Office, Agricultural Producer Price Indices in January 2005 (CSO).
Milk collection – full survey conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Date of completing data collection: 10 February 2005
Date of completing data processing: 23 February 2005
Contact person: Jiří Hrbek, phone 27405 2331, e-mail: hrbek@gw.czso.cz
Follow up publication: 2110-04 Monthly Overview of Livestock Slaughter in January 2005 (also /1-ep-2 )
These data are final.
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