According to officials from the agricultural portfolio, the increase in these indices was due to the increase in the average slaughter weight and the number of animals slaughtered.
In a press round, the secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Matias Lestani, the president of the National Service for Food Health and Quality (Senasa), Diana Guillenand the Undersecretary of Livestock, Jose Maria Romeropointed out that in the last two years the average slaughter weight added 7 kilos since 2020 and reached 231 kilos in this semester.
Likewise, cattle slaughter in the first semester grew 2% compared to 2021, reaching 6,482,826 heads, while the slaughter of heavier steers had an increase of 63 thousand heads, “thus managing to reduce the slaughter of steers by 61,000 heads” .
On the beef export side, 295,000 tons could be reached in the first semester, which would mean an increase of 7% if the first six months of 2020 are taken into account.
According to Lestani, these “are auspicious numbers” and “in accordance with the GanAr Plan, a trend in the increase in slaughter weight is consolidated, as well as a recovery in consumption, which positions us as the main consumer of meat per inhabitant.”
For his part, Romero said that “the central objectives of the plan are: to increase the number of calves obtained for every 100 mothers and to increase slaughter weight.”
Romero raised the possibility that, based on an improvement in the average weight of slaughter and a greater entry of animals into the refrigerators, a production of 3 million tons of meat will be reached in 2022.
Source: Ambito
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