KSH: fewer pigs and cattle, but more hens were kept at the end of last year

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2022. 03. 21. 11:30
On December 1 last year, the number of pigs was 4.4 percent lower, the number of cattle was 3.3 percent lower and the number of sheep 6.0 percent waslower than a year earlier, but 11 percent more hens were kept in the country, the Central Statistical Office published on Monday ( KSH).

2.7 million pigs were bred in Hungary at the end of 2021

The significant increase in the price of feed grains played a major role in the development of livestock: the purchase price of feed maize increased by 47 percent, that of feed barley by 33 percent and that of feed wheat by 32 percent compared to 2020. (MTI)

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