In 2022, 409.8 thousand livestock were slaughtered in the slaughterhouses according to survey results, 41.7 percent of which were cattle and 58.3 percent – sheep, goat, pig etc, - according to the preliminary data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat). In addition, the number of poultry slaughtered in slaughterhouses during the reporting period amounted to 12 975.2 thousand.
52 331.2 tons of meat were produced by slaughterhouses (i.e. slaughtered weight, including poultry meat) during the 2022, 36.5 percent of which is cattle meat, 41.4 percent – poultry meat, 20.9 percent – pork, 1.1 percent – sheep and goat meat and share of other was not significant. 2 975.0 tons of meat from the produced meat were purchased in 2022, of which 54.8 percent was cattle meat, 21.8 percent poultry meat and 20.4 percent was pork.
The service was provided to 43.0 thousand persons, 39.3 percent of which were households. The monthly average number of people employed in slaughterhouses equaled 1 130 persons.
The average cost of the service of slaughtering per each livestock made up: slaughtering cattle – 33.0 GEL, sheep or goat – 14.6 GEL, and pig – 28.2 GEL.
Most of slaughterhouses are fully equipped with modern technologies (52.6 percent), 45.2 is partially equipped and 2.2 is not equipped with modern technologies at all.
76.3 percent of slaughterhouses do not use loans while 23.7 percent has taken loans by several reasons: 62.5 percent for purchasing fixed capital (including both purchase new equipment or improve the old ones), 37.5 percent for the working capital.
