The processing sales price of chicken breast decreased by 15 percent

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Hungary’s poultry meat imports decreased by 13 percent to 20,000 tons in the observed period. Within this, the delivery of chicken meat fell by 31 percent to 13,000 tons, while that of turkey meat increased by 42 percent to 1,000 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 19.5 percent to HUF 412.7/kg, and that of slaughter turkeys by 15.4 percent to HUF 596.3/kg in the first twenty-one weeks of 2024 compared to the same period of the previous year. The processing selling price of chicken breast fillet is HUF 1,715.7/kilogram (-14.8 percent), bone-in chicken breast is HUF 1,095.3/kilogram (-21.5 percent), and the price of chicken breast (total) is HUF 1,685.5/kilogram (- 15.2 percent) in the observed period.

AKI PÁIR