Chicken sales on the rise

Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) monitors and regularly publishes the world’s poultry and meat product trends. Their latest report reveals that the volume of broiler chicken purchased weekly on weeks 1-40 in 2010 increased by 11 percent, but the live weight production price was 3.5 percent lower than in the previous year. Domestic chicken meat sales expanded by 19 percent until the first week in October. On weeks 1-40 5 percent less turkey was purchased weekly at 1.5 percent lower live weight production price. Domestic turkey meat sales fell by 7 percent until the first week in October. In October the production price of slaughter pig continued to decrease in the European Union and in Hungary.