Meat production up 14.5% and value up 8.9%
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- Meat production rises by 1.4 percent in 4th quarter of 2007
- Meat production statistics for the third quarter of this year
- Meat production and producer value rise by 4.3 and 5.1% respectively
- Agricultural producer and input prices increase by 2.9 and 22.4% respectively
- 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
- Agricultural factor income up slightly in 2007
- Fruit & vegetable prices register a large increase in 3rd quarter
- Volume and wholesale value of fish landings rise by 52.9 per cent and 72.1 per cent
- Fresh fruit and vegetable supplies down 19.5 per cent in Gozo
- Sea transport between Gozo and Malta registers an increase
- Fish landings up in Malta but down in Gozo
- Volume of fresh fruit and vegetables down by 12.2 per cent, wholesale value up 23.5 per cent
- Sea transport between Gozo and Malta registers an increase
- Gozo suffers a 60.8 per cent decline in volume of fish landed
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The volume of meat production rose by 14.5 per cent, while its producer value increased by 8.9 per cent during the first quarter of 2008.
Meat production in the first quarter of 2008 amounted to 3,627 tonnes, an increase of 459 tonnes (+14.5 per cent) over the corresponding period in 2007.
The volume of beef production in the first quarter of 2008 decreased by 4.6 per cent as a result of a 5.6 per cent decline in the number of cattle slaughtered. On the other hand, the average carcass weight increased slightly, by 1.1 per cent, over the same period in 2007.
Pigmeat production rose by 17.3 per cent, mainly on account of an increase of 14.5 per cent in the number of pigs slaughered. A slight increase in the average carcass weight of 2.4 per cent, from 83.6 kilograms in the first quarter of 2007 to 85.6 kilograms in the same period of 2008, was also registered.
Broiler-meat production increased by 16.3 per cent to 1,325 tonnes in the first quarter of 2008, on account of an increase in both the number of broilers slaughtered and a higher average carcass weight by 8.7 per cent and 7.0 per cent respectively.
The producer value of animals slaughtered at licensed slaughterhouses registered an increase of €0.47m (+8.9 per cent), to stand at €5.73m in the first quarter of 2008. The producer value of pigmeat and broiler meat increased by 11.4 per cent and 18.2 per cent respectively, as a result of an increase in the number of heads slaughtered. On the other hand, the producer value of beef declined by 11.3 per cent as a result of fewer heads slaughtered
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