Beef exports decreased by 24.7 percent

By: STA Date: 2024. 09. 10. 09:00

According to AKI’s slaughter statistics data, cattle slaughter in January-July 2024, expressed in live weight, was 10.2 percent lower than the amount in January-July 2023. Cows, which accounted for two-thirds of all slaughters, were slaughtered by around 11.1 percent, heifers by 21.2 percent less, while bulls increased by 1.6 percent at the same time.

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Based on data from the KSH, Hungary’s live cattle exports increased by 7.8 percent (36,000 tons), and their value increased by 1.4 percent in January-June 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. The main partners were Kosovo, Croatia, Austria, Poland, Albania and Italy.

Hungary’s live cattle imports exceeded the previous year by 6.9 percent (12.7 thousand tons), their value increased by 8.5 percent

More than half of the live cattle came from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. The volume of beef exports decreased by 24.7 percent (3.8 thousand tons), and the value by 22.1 percent. The volume of beef imports increased by 13 percent (7 thousand tons) and the value by 10.4 percent in the observed period. According to the data of AKI PÁIR, the producer price of the young bull was HUF 926/kilogram of carcass warm weight 1–35 2024. week, increased by 15 percent compared to a year earlier. The price of the slaughter heifer was 24 percent higher, and the price of the slaughter cow 8 percent higher in the examined period.

AKI PÁIR