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Solid growth in Turkey's red meat production

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Last year, the sector has seen an output increase of 7.4% in meat and 4.7% in animal production.

Posted on Feb 14 ,04:03

Turkey's red meat production reached 1.2 million tons in 2019, according to the latest report from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat). The country's red meat output increased by 7.4% in 2019, from 1.12 million tons the previous year, TurkStat said.

Production consisted of 1.07 million tonnes of cattle, 109,382 tonnes of sheep, 16,536 tonnes of goat and 73 tonnes of buffalo meat. Turkey produced 291,565 tons of red meat in the last quarter of 2019, up 9.5% versus the same quarter in 2018, according to statistical data. Another TurkStat report released last week indicated that Turkey's animal production increased by 4.7% to reach 66.6 million, mostly cattle and sheep.

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