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Changing regional patterns of turkey production and turkey meat trade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

H.-W. Windhorst
H.-W. Windhorst
Affiliation:
Institute of Spatial Analysis and Planning in Areas of Intensive Agriculture (ISPA), University of Vechta, Germany E-mail: hwindhorst@ispa.uni-vechta.de
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Abstract

Turkey meat production growth has been very dynamic since the 1970s. Global turkey stocks increased from 100M. to more than 276M. birds in 2004, in the same period the production volume increased from 1.2 to 5.1M. t. The growth in numbers of turkey stocks and turkey meat production shows remarkable regional differences. Even though North and Central America are still dominating this branch of the poultry industry, Europe could gain market shares. A high regional concentration can be observed in the turkey industry. In 2004 the ten leading countries contributed 79% of the global turkey stocks and more than 89% to turkey meat production. The regional pattern of turkey meat trade has changed considerably. France became the leading exporting country in the1980s; in 2003 the top three importing countries were Mexico, Russia and China. The regional concentration in turkey meat trade is also very high, in 2003 the ten leading countries contributed about 91% to the global export and 72% to the import volume. A major influencing factor behind the changing regional pattern of production and trade has been the development in the per capita consumption of broiler and turkey meat.

Keywords

turkey stocksturkey meat productionturkey meat trade
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 97 - 114
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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