Slaughterhouse services became more expensive last year. In 2025, in Georgia operated 132 livestock and poultry slaughterhouses, 18.9 percent of which were located in Shida Kartli region, 18.2 percent – in Kvemo Kartli region, 17.4 percent in – Kakheti region, 13.6 percent – in Imereti region, 9.8 percent – in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, and remaining 22 percent were located in other regions, - according to the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
In 2025 in the slaughterhouses were slaughtered 511.1 thousand units of livestock, 32 percent of which were cattle and 68. percent were sheeps, goats, pigs, etc. In addition, the number of poultry slaughtered in slaughterhouses during the reporting period amounted to 12 351.6 thousand.
65 279.8 tons of meat (i.e. slaughtered weight, including poultry meat) were produced by slaughterhouses in 2025 and 30.0 percent of this amount was beef, 33.4 percent was poultry meat, 35.9 percent – pork, 0.6 percent – mutton and goat meat, and the share of other meat was negligible.
9,436.9 tons of meat produced in slaughterhouses were purchased by slaughterhouses themselves in 2025. Out of this amount, 29.9 percent was cattle, 6.9 percent was poultry meat, and 62.6 percent – pork meat.
In 2025 the service was provided to 29.0 thousand persons, 51.3 percent of which were households. The monthly average number of people employed in slaughterhouses equaled 1 094 persons.
The average costs of the service of slaughtering per unit of livestock were respectively: cattle – 40.2 GEL, sheep or goat – 13.6 GEL, and pig – 33.8 GEL.
Almost half (47.0 percent) of slaughterhouses are fully equipped with modern equipment, 45.5 percent are partially equipped, and 7.6 percent are not equipped with modern equipment at all.
65.9 percent of slaughterhouses do not use loans, while 34.1 percent have taken loans for various purposes. Of those who have loans, 57.8 percent took it for purchasing fixed capital, 28.9 percent for financing the working capital, and 13.3 percent got loans to finance both, fixed and working capital simultaneously.
