In January, chicken meat production was 183,713 tonnes, up by 8.8% compared to January 2019.
Statistical data from Turkey shows that chicken meat production in the country is rising this year. At the beginning of 2020, Turkey reported a production of 183,713 tonnes of chicken meat, up by 8.8 against the same month of 2019. Also, the number of chicken slaughtered increased by 6%, reaching a total of 102,837 thousand units. Hen egg production (1.8 billion units) increased 2.6% y-o-y and 1.6% compared with the previous month.
A negative evolution was reported in turkey meat production (4,705 tonnes), with a decline of 7.4% compared to the same month last year and down by 21.1% against the figure reported in December 2019. In 2019, Turkish egg exports have been hit by a ban placed by Iraq on these products. However, Turkish exporters raced to find new markets for their products and recorded a 12,715% increase in egg imports to Syria from $320,161 to $41 million in 2019. Egg imports to Kuwait also rose by 2,000% to $31.64 million, up from over $1 million in 2018. In October, exporters also sent the first shipment of eggs to the US, a market Turkish egg exporters have been eyeing for a long time. Poultry meat exports have totaled $571.4 million last year.
