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2120 final report.pdf - Agra CEAS Consulting

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APPENDIX 1: MEMBER STATE REPORTSA1.9.3.3. Trade in egg productsItaly is a net exporter of shell and processed eggs in addition to processed food containing eggs. In2003 Italy exported almost 3 billion shell eggs and 6.4 tonnes of whole liquid egg, mainly to France,Germany, Denmark and the UK. There is also an important net export of dry, liquid and frozenyolks, dry and liquid albumin and whole dried egg.A1.9.4. Egg marketsA1.9.4.1. Primary demandApproximately 19% of Italian egg production is from backyard flocks 108 and these eggs are sold director used on-farm. Around 44% of egg production enters the retail sector in shell with 37% used bythe food industry 109 . The breakdown by production system differs slightly according to sector witheggs from caged systems accounting for 94% of all retail sales and 97% of eggs used for processing.Barn eggs account for 4.5% of retail sales, but are not used at all for processing. Semi-intensivesystems contribute 0.8% of retail sales and 1.0% of processing share. Finally, organic eggs have aretail market share of 1.1% and a processing market share of 0.1%. This is presented graphically inFigure A1.53 where the dominance of the caged system in both sectors is clearly apparent.6,0005,000Demand for eggs by production system (millions)4,0003,0002,0001,0000RetailFood industryTraditional cage Barn Semi-intensive OrganicFigure A1.53: Estimated demand for eggs by sector and production system 2003Source: National Union of Aviculture and <strong>Agra</strong> <strong>CEAS</strong> <strong>Consulting</strong> calculations.108 Although these account for almost a quarter of laying hens.109 It was not possible to divide this into the food service and the food manufacturing sectors.228

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