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- Meat production up 14.5% and value up 8.9%
- Meat production rises by 1.4 percent in 4th quarter of 2007
- Agricultural producer and input prices rise by 14.0 per cent and 22.5 per cent respectively
- Producer and input prices for agricultural output increases
- Fruit & vegetable prices register a large increase in 3rd quarter
- Fresh fruit and vegetable supplies down 19.5 per cent in Gozo
- Volume of fresh fruit and vegetables down by 12.2 per cent, wholesale value up 23.5 per cent
- Fruit and vegetable supply declines but wholesale value rises
- Volume and wholesale value of fish landings rise by 52.9 per cent and 72.1 per cent
- Gozitan fishermen suffer a 73.1 per cent drop in fish landed
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The volume and producer value of meat production rose by 5.5 per cent and 1.7 per cent respectively during the third quarter of 2007. Meat production in the third quarter of 2007 amounted to 3,304 tonnes, which is an increase of 5.5 per cent over the corresponding period in 2006. Contrasting developments within the livestock sector were responsible for this increase.
The volume of beef production in the third quarter of 2007 rose by 4.3 per cent as a result of an increase in the average carcass weight of cattle (+4.7 per cent), although the number of cattle slaughtered declined by 0.4 per cent over the comparative period in 2006.
The volume of pigmeat production rose by 9.5 per cent, mainly on account of an increase in the average carcass weight of pigs of 8.8 per cent, from 77.7 kilograms to 84.5 kilograms in the third quarter this year. The number of pigs slaughtered rose marginally by 0.7 per cent over the 24,380 pigs slaughtered in the third quarter last year.
On the other hand, broiler-meat production declined by 2.4 per cent, the developments in this sector being that the number of broilers slaughtered fell by 6.7 per cent although the average carcass weight rose by 4.5 per cent over the comparative period in 2006.
The producer value of animals slaughtered at licensed slaughterhouses registered an increase of 1.7 per cent, to stand at Lm2.29m in the third quarter of 2007. While the producer value of broiler meat declined by 3.4 per cent as a result of fewer broilers slaughtered, this drop was offset by an increase in the producer value of beef and pigmeat production of 1.3 per cent and 4.0 per cent respectively, as a consequence of increased carcass weights.
When considering all livestock slaughtered at licensed slaughterhouses in the first three quarters of 2007, an increase of 3.8 per cent was registered in the volume while a slight increase of 0.8 per cent was registered in the producer value.
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