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2120 final report.pdf - Agra CEAS Consulting

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APPENDIX 1: MEMBER STATE REPORTSAll the above companies have grown since 1990 whilst maintaining their approximate scale relative toone another. However, the industry believes that some concentration has taken place in that thesecompanies now account for a greater share of total eggs packed than a decade ago.A1.9.2.3. Main production systemsThere are no differences between the systems implemented in Italy and the EU minimumrequirements.Almost all commercial Italian egg production takes place in traditional cages. Alternative systemsaccount for less than 4.0% of the laying flock with barn systems accounting for 2.4%, the semiintensivesystem 106 for 0.4% and organic production for 0.6%. Backyard flocks account for a largeproportion of total Italian laying hens (24%) as can be seen in Table A1.60.Table A1.60: Number of laying hens by type of system 1990-20021990 1995 2002Backyard Flocks 15,500,000 15,000,000 13,075,000Traditional cages 36,980,000 39,275,000 39,460,000Barn 200,000 1,000,000Semi-intensive 200,000Organic 250,000Total 52,480,000 54,475,000 53,985,000Note: Whilst data from DG Agri suggest slightly more production in alternative systems, the requirement to <strong>report</strong>production system is only recent and the main point is that almost all production takes place in traditional cages.Source: National Union of Aviculture.The evolution of the use of systems in Italy is presented graphically using data from DG Agri 107 . Thisdemonstrates both the general low use of alternative systems and the modest increase in these to2002.106 Whilst the Italian outdoor sector typically uses the semi-intensive variant, some producers do stock more extensively outdoors. DGAgri data suggests that around 10% of outdoor producers used a free range system in 2001. However, the current proportion ofproducers using the free range system rather than the semi-intensive one is unknown and will be insignificant given the overall scale of theoutdoor sector.107 National Union of Aviculture is used as a source for traditional cage numbers in 2002. This number includes backyard flocks.223

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