In 2024, in Georgia operated 131 livestock and poultry slaughterhouses, 17.6% of which were located in Kakheti region, 16% – in Kvemo Kartli region, 16% in – Shida Kartli region, 13.7% – in Imereti region, 10.7% – in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, and remaining 26% were in other regions, - according to the preliminary data from the NationalS taitsitcis Office of Georgioa (Geostat).
In 2024 in the slaughterhouses were slaughtered 520 thousand units of livestock, 30.6% of which were cattle and 69.4% were sheeps, goats, pigs, etc. In addition, the number of poultry slaughtered in slaughterhouses during the reporting period amounted to 12,243.7 thousand.
63,020.9 tons of meat (i.e. slaughtered weight, including poultry meat) were produced by slaughterhouses during 2024 and 29.9% of this amount was beef, 35 % was poultry meat, 33.9 percent – pork, 1.2 percent – mutton and goat meat, and the share of other meat was negligible.
8,728.2 tons of meat from the produced meat in slaughterhouses were purchased in 2024. Out of this amount, 30.8 percent was cattle, 5.2 percent was poultry meat, and 63.5% – pork meat.
In 2024 the service was provided to 30.6 thousand persons, 53.6 percent of which were households. The monthly average number of people employed in slaughterhouses equaled 1,113 persons.
The average cost of the service of slaughtering per unit of livestock were respectively: cattle – 38.1 GEL, sheep or goat – 14.9 GEL, and pig – 30.8 GEL.
Almost half (49.6 percent) of slaughterhouses are fully equipped with modern equipment, 46.6% are partially equipped, and 3.8% are not equipped with modern equipment at all.
66.4% of slaughterhouses do not use loans, while 33.6 percent have taken loans for various purposes: 61.4% for purchasing fixed capital, 25% for the working capital, and 13.6% got loans to finance both, fixed and working capital simultaneously.
