Pregledni rad
The movements of the pig production in Croatia 1994-2003
Marijan Sviben
Sažetak
Discussions about the changes in Eastern Europe and the consequences of these in livestock production started in 1990. In April 1991 a Round Table on „The livestock production sector in Eastern Europe” was organised by EAAP, FAO and the Research Centre for Animal Breeding and Nutrition (Herceghalom, Hungary) in cooperation with the World Bank, EEC, OIE and WAAP in Budapest. In May 1992 FAO gathered the single expert from Albania, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Ukraine and Yugoslavia at the National Research Institute of Animal Production in Balice (near Krakow, Poland) in order to report on the pig production in their countries, to identify constraints and to find potential solutions in Eastern Europe during the period of transition from central planning towards a market economy. Such a period of time began in Republic of Croatia on January 1st 1994, when the economy started to be regulated by new laws, mostly according to keynesian economics.The movements of the pig production during the first decade of the transition in Republic of Croatia became visible when concerning data had been published by Croatian Livestock Production Centre in the springtime and by Central Bureau of Statistics of Republic of Croatia at the end of 2004. The aim of this research work has been to find possible consequences of the movements of the pig production in close future. In 1990 it was estimated that the number of pigs produced in Croatia to be slaughtered should be doubled. The World Food Summit in 1996 was informed that 6.156.000-7.614.000 pigs have to be produced in order the health status of 4.800.000 inhabitants in Republic of Croatia to be good. The number of pigs slaughtered in Republic of Croatia during 1994 was 1.573.000 or 25,46% less than in 1990 (2.110.000). During following nine years the number of pigs slaughtered in Republic of Croatia varied from 1.404.000 in 1996. to 1.567.000 in 1999. satisfying the number of pigs slaughtered in order the health status of inhabitants to be good as much as 23,53% in 1995 to 26,99% in 2002. During the first decade of transition in Republic of Croatia the production of pigs to be slaughtered at home for the producers, their families, relatives and friends was more intensive than the production of pigs for the market to be slaughtered at the slaughterhouses. The pig holders lessened the making money with pigs. It has been established that the number of pigs slaughtered per no-agricultural inhabitant a year at the slaughterhouse until 2008 will be lessened more quickly according to the equation derived from the data for 1998-2003 than to the equation derived from the data for 1994-2003. Similar movements and possible consequences were found with the data for average number of sows at the beginning of the year as well as with the data for the number of pigs weaned during the year in large pig units. The number of pigs slaughtered at the slaughterhouses per no-agricultural inhabitant was strongly, positevely and significicantly correlated to the number of alive means for the work and to the volume of production of objectives of the work in industrially organised pig enterprises. During the period of transition in Republic of Croatia developed the situation so that the provision of pork for no-agricultural inhabitants from year to year will be less from the pigs produced in Republic of Croatia.
Ključne riječi
pig farming; Croatia; transition
Hrčak ID:
2592
URI
Datum izdavanja:
10.12.2005.
Posjeta: 1.961 *