The price of chicken breast fillets decreased by 19 percent

The largest target markets for poultry meat were Romania (27 thousand tons), Germany (20 thousand tons), Bulgaria (18 thousand tons), Austria (17 thousand tons) and France (15 thousand tons). Hungary’s poultry meat imports increased by 7 percent to 80,000 tons in the observed period. Within this, the delivery of chicken meat increased by 5 percent to approximately 59,000 tons, and that of turkey meat by 23 percent to 4,000 tons. Most poultry meat came from Poland (32 thousand tons) and Romania (20 thousand tons).

According to AKI PÁIR data, the live weight producer price of slaughter chickens in Hungary decreased by 19.4 percent to HUF 411.0/kg, and that of slaughter turkeys by 12.0 percent to HUF 597.5/kg in the first five weeks of 2024 compared to the same period of the previous year. Chicken breast fillet was HUF 1,692.3/kilogram (-19.1 percent), and bone-in chicken breast was HUF 1,035.5/kilogram (-23.8 percent) at the same time. The price of chicken breast (in total) was 1,657.8 forints/kilogram (-19.6 percent), and the price of chicken legs was 852.5 forints/kilogram (-7.6 percent) in the first five weeks compared to the same period in 2023.

AKI PÁIR