Only 63.6 percent of slaughterhouses have cold storage facilities
In 2024 in the slaughterhouses were slaughtered 520 thousand units of
livestock, 30.6% of which were cattle and 69.4% were sheeps, goats,
pigs, etc. In addition, the number of poultry slaughtered in
slaughterhouses during the reporting period amounted to 12,243.7
thousand.63,020.9 tons of meat (i.e. slaughtered weight, including
poultry meat) were produced by slaughterhouses during 2024 and 29.9%
of this amount was beef, 35 % was poultry meat, 33.9 percent – pork,
1.2 percent – mutton and goat meat, and the share of other meat was
negligible.8,728.2 tons of meat from the produced meat in
slaughterhouses were purchased in 2024. Out of this amount, 30.8
percent was cattle, 5.2 percent was poultry meat, and 63.5% – pork
meat.In 2024 the service was provided to 30.6 thousand persons, 53.6
percent of which were households. The monthly average number of people
employed in slaughterhouses equaled 1,113 persons.The average cost of
the service of slaughtering per unit of livestock were respectively:
cattle – 38.1 GEL, sheep or goat – 14.9 GEL, and pig – 30.8
GEL.Almost half (49.6 percent) of slaughterhouses are fully equipped
with modern equipment, 46.6% are partially equipped, and 3.8% are not
equipped with modern equipment at all.66.4% of slaughterhouses do not
use loans, while 33.6 percent have taken loans for various purposes:
61.4% for purchasing fixed capital, 25% for the working capital, and
13.6% got loans to finance both, fixed and working capital
simultaneously.387 cold storage facilities operated in Georgia in
2024. Most of them were located in Shida Kartli region (59.7 percent),
while the rest were spread across Tbilisi (11.1 percent), Kakheti (9.8
percent), Kvemo Kartli (5.2 percent), Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region
(5.2 percent), Imereti region (3.4 percent), Adjara AR (3.1 percent),
Guria (1.0 percent), Mtskheta-Mtianeti (0.8 percent),
Samtskhe-Javakheti region (0.5 percent), and Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo
Svaneti (0.3 percent).In 2024 service was provided to 509 customers.
The number of producers and resellers, from whom the product was
purchased for resale, totaled to 1 289, while the annual average
number of employed persons in cold storage facilities equaled 1 964.
In 2024, in cold storage facilities were stored 340.8 thousand tons of
products. 41.3 percent of those products was chicken meat (including
frozen meat), 19.8 percent were meat and meat products (including
semi-finished products), 12.8 percent – fruits and vegetables, 12.7
percent – fish, 7.8 percent – milk products, while the remaining
5.6 percent were other types of products.In 2024 cold storage
facilities purchased 72.2 thousand tonnes of products for resale and
the income from provided services amounted to 27.1 million GEL. In
2024 cold storage facilities sold 544.0 million GEL worth of products
(96.3 thousand tones) and relatively big share (48.3 percent) of those
products in terms of value were local (purchased) products. Herewith,
46.3 percent of local (own) products sold by cold storage facilities
was chicken meat. Significant share of imported products was meat and
meat products (including semi-processed goods) (33.2 percent), chicken
meat (including frozen) (31.8 percent), and fish (10.3 percent). Sales
on the foreign markets accounted for 3.3 percent of total value of
products sold.Significant share of foreign sales were chicken meat
(59.2 percent), and fruits and vegetables (29.9 percent). According to
the results of the survey, the average daily load of storage in cold
storage facilities was 57.2 percent in January, 51.4 percent in
February, 51.0 percent in March, 49.8 percent in April, 57.6 percent
in May, 47.8 percent in June, 55.0 percent in July, 58.5 percent in
August, 49.7 percent in September, 58.7 percent in October, 57.7
percent in November, and 53.0 percent in December. 63.6 percent of
cold storage facilities are fully equipped with modern equipment, 32.8
percent are equipped partly and 3.6 percent are not equipped with
modern equipment at all. 70.0 percent of cold storage facilities use
loans. Those facilities use loans to purchasing fixed capital
(including both purchase new equipment or improve the old ones) (51.3
percent), to finance the working capital (45.4 percent), or to finance
both, the fixed and working capital simultaneously (3.3 percent).In
2024, 39 elevators were active in Georgia. Most of those elevators
were located in Kvemo Kartli region (25.6 percent) and in Kakheti
region (23.1 percent). The active elevators were also located in
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region (12.8 percent), in Imereti region (12.8
percent), in Tbilisi (12.8 percent), in Shida Kartli region (7.7
percent), and in Guria region (5.1 percent).In 2024 service was
provided to 30 customers. The number of producers and resellers, from
whom the product was purchased for resale, totaled to 118, while the
annual average number of employed persons in cold storage facilities
equaled 441. In 2024, 464.5 thousand tons of products were stored in
elevators. 61.3 percent of these products was wheat, 19.1 percent was
soybeans grist, 8.2 percent was wheat flour, and 8.0 percent was corn.
The share of the rest of products were negligible.In 2024, 280.1
thousand tones of products (with total value of 326.3 million GEL) was
sold by elevators. 32.9 percent of this amount in terms of value was
local (own) production. Expenses on processing and storage of products
by elevators equaled 4.6 million GEL. Most of local (own) production
by volume and value was wheat flour (81.8 of value of products sold by
elevators), and bran (11.9 percent).According to the survey results,
average daily loading of the availability storages was 50.2 percent in
January, 48.4 percent in February, 46.7 percent in March, 48.3 percent
in April, 47.1 percent in May, 46.3 percent in June, 51.4 percent in
July, 47.5 percent in August, 49.3 percent in September, 54.7 percent
in October, 54.2 percent in November, and 53.1 percent in December.
46.2 percent of the elevators are fully equipped with modern
equipment, 38.5 percent are equipped partly and 15.4 percent are not
equipped with modern technologies at all. 41.0 percent of the elevator
use loans. Half of those elevators use loans to purchase fixed capital
(including both purchase new equipment or improve the old ones), 37.5
percent use loan to finance working capital, and 12.5 percent use loan
for both.
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