Infographics - French breeding

Infographics - French breeding

• Cattle : 18.5
• Pigs : 13.7
• Sheep : 7.2
• Goats : 1.3
• Meat poultry : 155.3
• Laying hens : 48.3

(In 2018, millions of heads)

In 2016, 172 000 farms will be devoted to livestock, i.e. 39% of all farms (beef cattle, milk, mixed ; sheep ; pigs ; poultry).

Consumption of animal products in 2018 (per capita / year) :

• Pig meat : 33 kg
• Poultry : 28 kg
• Cheeses : 24 kg
• Beef : 23 kg
• Eggs : 13 kg
• Butter : 8 kg
• Other* : 3kg
• Sheep & goat : 2 kg

(*Equine, rabbit & game meat and offal)

• 4 million cows & 1.3 million dairy ewes.
• France accounts for 30% of european goat's milk collection.
• 10% of poultry are under official quality or origin sign (PGI / PDO / AB / LABEL ROUGE).

The weight of the food processing / preservation of meat and meat preparations industries

• 23% of employees in food compagnie (in FTES)
• 39 billion € turnover
• 3 billion € of meat & offal exported
• 6 billion € of milk & dairy products exported

Source : Agreste Graphagri 2019 (2018 data)