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Czech meat output falls

31/08/2004

Czech meat output dropped by 19.1% year-on-year to 34,832 tonnes in July owing to a fall in pork and beef production, according to the Czech Statistical office.

 

Pork output in July decreased by 19.7% to 27.448 tonnes and beef production shed 16.8% to 7,360 tonnes. Output for the seven months up to August dipped by 5.7% year-on-year to 286,580 tonnes, with pork production down by 5.2% and beef output by 7.8%.

 

After the Czech Republic joined the European Union and entered the single European market in May, exports of slaughter pigs and cattle increased markedly in year-on-year terms. In the January-June period the country showed a surplus of 7,506 tonnes in foreign trade in beef and a deficit of 11,174 tonnes in pork.

 

But the volume of beef traded grew considerably, with imports rising more than three times and exports 12 times year-on-year. Pork imports added 50% and exports grew by a quarter against a year ago. The average slaughter weight increased by 0.2% to 596.2 kg for bulls but dropped by 1.7% to 105.2 kg for pigs. Farmers’ prices rose by 3.6% year- on-year.

 

Czech dairies bought 221 million litres of milk in July, a decline of 0.8% from the same month a year ago. Milk purchases in January-July dipped by 2.6%. Of the volume of milk quotas allotted by the EU for the year starting 1 April 2004 and ending 31 March 2005 the Czech Republic exhausted 34.2% at the end of July.  

 

 



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