Poland: Growth of hog inventory 03 Feb 2010

On the basis of the Warsaw Head Office for Statistics, over 14.2 million pigs were counted by the end of November 2009 – a 0.1% year-on-year rise.


In March 2009, the low-point was registered with only 13.3 million pigs. The total November growth still was very modest, despite the fact that numbers of sows and gestating animals went up 6.4%. The statistics office attributed this positive development to a growth in profitability in pig production, as prices for pigs are relatively high and feed prices are relatively low.


Beef and sheep
In beef production, the statistics office noted a total number of cattle of approximately 5.6 million animals in December 2009, a year-on-year growth of 0.5%. Numbers of sheep dropped by 17.2% to 223,200 in the same period.


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