ZAGREB, 17 Feb 2022 - According to the provisional number of livestock and poultry in 2021, as compared to the final data for 2020, the number of cattle increased by 1.2%, while the number of pigs decreased by 6.8%, of sheep by 4.5% and of poultry by 11.9%, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics has said.
As of 1 December 2021, there were 428,000 head of cattle in Croatia, 963,000 pigs, 632,000 sheep, 86,000 goats, the same as in December 2020, and 11.5 million head of poultry.
The number of cattle of two years and over dropped by 0.6% to 165,000, the number of dairy cows by 7.3% to 102,000 and the number of cattle between one and two years old by 3.6% to 107,000, while the number of young cattle under one year old went up by 6.8% to 156,000.
The number of breeding pigs dropped by 4.4% to 108,000, while the number of sows went up by 2% to 51,000.
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