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2120 final report.pdf - Agra CEAS Consulting

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APPENDIX 2: THIRD COUNTRIESPrior to 1998, the USDA published data on the volume of egg products marketed in liquid, frozen, ordried form. The <strong>final</strong> year for which these data were published (1997) showed the followingdistribution by these categories:liquid: 546 million tonnes;frozen: 177 million tonnes; and,dried: 60 million tonnes.Nearly 60% of all shell eggs are marketed through retail outlets. Another 9% are directly marketedto the catering sector while less than 1% of table eggs are exported directly from producers withoutany processing Figure A2.5.Catering9.1%Export0.8%Processing30.6%Retail59.5%Figure A2.5: Shell egg market outlets 2002Source: United Egg Producers.As Figure A2.6 shows, the trend in recent years is for a decreasing share to be marketed directly tothe catering sector and for an increasing share to be marketed through the processing industry.Traditionally, as the breaker market becomes saturated, eggs are diverted to the shell market. Thus,with the large supply of eggs in 2002, the retail shell market absorbed an unusually large share of theoutput.367

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