Data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TURKSTAT) released on Oct. 13 on poultry production showed that Türkiye’s chicken meat production fell by almost 6 percent in August compared with the same month of last year to 203,000 tonnes.
The annual decline in turkey meat production was more than 29 percent year-on-year to 3,920 tonnes.
Egg production rose 4.5 percent to 1.76 billion, while the number of chickens slaughtered declined nearly 8 percent to around 112 million.
In the first eight months of 2023, chicken meat production was down 4.6 percent to 1.5 million tonnes and egg output rose by 4.2 percent from a year ago to 13.4 billion…