Agriculture - September 2005
Decrease in meat production returned
Publication Date: 27. 10. 2005
Product Code: r-2101-05
After a temporary increase in meat production total (excl. poultry meat) in August 2005, September saw a further decrease in meat production (- 5.1 %) compared to the same month of the previous year. Pig meat production went down by 4.5 % and beef production (incl. veal) decreased by 7.8 % year-on-year.
The average slaughter weight increased by 2.7 % to 603.7 kg for bulls and by 0.6 % to 105.4 kg for pigs for slaughter (excl. sows and boars) year-on-year.
Prices of agricultural producers rose up by 5.6 % for bulls for slaughter year-on-year, on the contrary the same prices went down by 7.8 % for pigs for slaughter.
Milk collection for dairies went down by 3.0 % year-on-year.
Since the beginning of the year meat production total (excl. poultry meat) has decreased by 13.7 % year-on-year due to both decreases in pigmeat and beef production (incl. veal) by 12.3 % and 19.6 %, respectively. A fall of indigenous meat production was compensated for meat imports.
The average slaughter weight went down by 0.1 % to 587.9 kg for bulls for slaughter year-on-year, in case of pigs for slaughter (excl. sows and boars) the weight fall by 1.9 % to 106.0 kg.
Prices of agricultural producers rose by 8.7 % for bulls for slaughter year-on-year, in case of pigs for slaughter the prices rose by 3.5 %.
Milk collected for dairies increased by 0.4 % year-on-year.
Analysis - Trends of meat production, milk collected, external trade and agricultural producer prices
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 September 2005 (CSO).
Milk collection – full survey conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Date of completing data collection: 10 October 2005
Date of completing data processing: 25 October 2005
Follow up publication: 2110-04 Monthly Overview of Livestock Slaughter in September 2005 (also /1-ep-2 )
These data are final.
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