5.1% increase in Spanish meat production in 2020
Spain reports a 5.1% increase in meat output for last year, despite the fact that slaughtering figures have dropped for almost all species with one exception: pigs. Increased demand for pork in China, the main market for Spanish pig meat, has raised the slaughtering figures by 6.57%, to 56,461,218 head, according to official data released by the Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA). Also, the weight was higher than usual favoring a rise of 8.24% in pig meat production (5,023,534 tonnes).
Overall, Spanish meat production during 2020 totaled 7,603,932 tons due to a rise in pig meat and poultry output (0.74%). Nevertheless, the number of birds slaughtered has dropped by 2.04% to 800,615, 356. For the rest of the species the were slight decreases in both slaughtering figures and meat output:
- cattle 2,444,480 head (-2.64%) , with a total production of 677,295 tonnes (-2.57%).
- goat 1,202,083 head (-7.77%), totaling 10,160 tonnes (-2.50%).
- sheep 9,456,150 head (- 6.00%), totaling 114,305 tonnes (- 5.30%).
- rabbit 40,743,739 head (-0.64%), with a total production of 51,229 tonnes (-1.75%).
The difference is represented by the horse meat production, 9,530 tonnes (-1.05%) from 36,949 animals. Basically, the numbers are closed to the figures reported in 2018, when Spain had an increase in meat production of 5.51%.
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