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According to statistical data from the RVO, during the first 3 months of this year, Dutch exports of finishing pigs have decreased significantly from 366,173 head in the first quarter of 2020 to 202,455 head, a decrease of 44.7%.
The cause of this decline is the shipments to Germany, the main destination, which absorbed 90% of the total number of finishing pigs exported by the Netherlands during 2020. During this first quarter, shipments to Germany decreased by 49% from 353,622 head in the first quarter of 2020 to the current 180,406 head.
Table 1. Dutch exports of fattening pigs during the first quarter to the main destinations.
| Q1 2021 | Q1 2020 | Q1 2019 | Q1 2018 |
Q1 2017 |
Q1 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 180,406 | 353,622 | 458,369 | 565,995 | 726,5017 | 841,199 |
| Belgium and Luxembourg | 12,547 | 3,673 | 3,016 | 5,730 | 13,082 | 10,242 |
| Spain | 3,197 | 4,000 | 4,605 | 4,880 | 3,074 | 0 |
| Italy | 3,000 | 4,026 | 3,664 | 4,916 | 4,692 | 5,278 |
| Poland | 2,425 | 695 | 0 | 460 | 921 | 1,110 |
Shipments to Germany have been decreasing over the years as shown in the following graph:
German annual imports of finishing pigs from the Netherlands.
May 6, 2021/ 333 Staff from RVO data.
