Poultry imports decreased by 21 percent

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The largest destination country in the Union was the United Kingdom. The community’s poultry meat imports rose by 27 percent to 85,000 tons at the same time. More than half of the imports came from Brazil and Ukraine.

Based on data from the KSH, Hungary’s poultry meat exports increased by 10 percent to 35,000 tons in the first two months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023

Within this, the export of chicken increased by 7 percent to 24,000 tons, and that of turkey increased by 25 percent to 4,000 tons. The biggest target markets for poultry meat were Romania and Bulgaria. Hungary’s poultry meat imports decreased by 21 percent to 12.5 thousand tons in the observed period. Within this, the delivery of chicken meat fell by 29 percent to 9,000 tons, while that of turkey meat increased by 36 percent to 831 tons. Most of the poultry meat came from Poland and Romania. According to AKI PÁIR data, the live weight producer price of slaughter chickens in Hungary decreased by 19.9 percent to HUF 412.6/kg, and that of slaughter turkeys by 14.9 percent to HUF 596.9/kg in the first seventeen weeks of 2024 compared to the same period of the previous year.

AKI PÁIR