Poultry meat production increased by 3.7 percent year on year to 45,413 tons. Pork was produced only slightly more than in the third quarter of last year, by a third of a percent. Pork production rose to 52,915 tons.
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“Pork production remained at the same level, although there was a further decline in the prices of pigs for slaughter,” said Markéta Fiedlerová from the CZSO’s Department of Agriculture and Forestry Statistics.
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Of meat, beef production fell by 1.8 percent to 17,217 tons. “Czechs eat little beef because it is less affordable than pork and poultry,” explained BHS chief economist Štěpán Křeček.
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He also noted that “if we stopped importing meat from abroad, the front would stand on it as under the previous regime.” For example, the Czechia had to import around 69,000 tons of pork from abroad. It came mainly from Germany, Spain, Poland and Belgium. The same was true for poultry imports. The Czechia had to import 25,000 tons. More than half of them came from Poland.
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Prices of cows for slaughter higher by nine percent
In the third quarter, about 55,900 cattle were slaughtered in slaughterhouses, which was 1.9 percent less year-on-year. Heifer slaughters fell by more than eight percent to about 5,400. The number of cows was reduced by 2.7 percent to 24,700. Pig slaughters, on the other hand, rose 1.3 percent from about last year to about 575,400. According to the CZSO, the difference in the rate of increase in the number of pigs slaughtered and the number of tonnes of pork produced is the result of a slight decrease in the average slaughter weight of pigs.
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Cattle for slaughter increased by 6.1 percent year on year. The prices of cows for slaughter rose the most, by 9.1 percent. The price of heifers rose by 8.8 percent and the price of bulls by 4.1 percent. On the other hand, the prices of pigs for slaughter fell by 6.5 percent compared to last year. Prices of chickens for slaughter increased, but were only 0.2 percent.
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In the third quarter of this year, almost 764.4 million liters of milk were purchased from domestic producers, of which 664.4 million liters were purchased. While total milk purchases fell by 1.5 percent compared to last year, purchases by dairies rose by 1.6 percent.
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