Turkey's chicken meat production down in June

By Erdogan Cagatay Zontur

ANKARA (AA) - Chicken meat production in Turkey fell by 1.3% year-on-year in June, the country's statistical authority announced Friday.

TurkStat said chicken meat production amounted to 168,552 tons in June, while turkey meat production totaled 3,968 tons.

The institute said that 96 million chickens were slaughtered in the same month, marking an annual drop of 6.3%.

The number of slaughtered turkey declined by 30.9% to 395,000 over the same period.

In 2018, Turkey's chicken meat production totaled 2.16 million tons. Throughout the year, the country also produced over 69,500 tons of turkey meat and 134 tons of quail meat.

The official poultry production report also revealed that hen egg production in Turkey totaled 1.494 billion units in June, down 1.3% on a yearly basis.

Last year, Turkey produced 19.6 billion hen eggs with an annual hike of nearly 2%.