Meat production poised for slow recovery

“Beef slaughters increased by 38 percent from 495 974 head in 2023 to 531 588, with a significant portion of 60 000 being breeding stock in 2024 spurred by the drought-induced destocking of beef cattle,”

THE surge in livestock sales by farmers as a defensive strategy against the vagaries of drought last year will adversely affect the growth of the sector, an expert has said.The 2023/24 drought was one of the worst in the Sub-Saharan Africa region in recent times, resulting in widespread deaths of livestock.The latest Crop and Livestock…

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