The Poultry Slaughter and Processor Industry
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In the Hungarian poultry industry it is customary to divide the capacity of primary slaughtering plants - although this is not necessarily a good thing - into 'narrow' and 'universal' cross-sections. 'Narrow' refers mostly to lines suitable for the slaughtering of broiler chicken, capacity ranging betweer 4,000-8,000 items per hour in the case of processing plants involved in export. These use the latest technology meeting the highest international standards, including automated machinery. The other major category, with a significantly lower output, is the group of small plants producing for domestic or local markets, with a slaughtering capacity of 500-1,200 items per hour. So-called 'universal' lines - as their name suggests - are suitable for the slaughtering of there several poultry breeds at a time. Of course, are also specialised lines, suitable for processing turkey, geese or. By projecting the aggregate output of both types of lines upon the equivalent price of chicken we find that the capacity is 130,000 items per hour. In accordance with market demand - and especially the export market - we have seen a continuous rise in the production of cleaved products, such as breasts and drumsticks. A company will often chop up to 90-95% of its entire stock. Naturally, the Hungarian poultry industry is capable of producing fresh, pre-cooled products in accordance with the demands of the market. For this purpose the industry has a total capacity of 250 tonnes per hour. Furthermore, a substantial synchronic freezing capacity has been put in place, which together - adding up the three different temperature categories - reach the capacity of 160 tonnes per hour. Storage sheds kept at various temperatures and owned by slaughtering plants currently have a storage capacity of 15,000 tonnes at any given time. 
Processing activities and, consequently, the range of products are dynamically increasing from year to year. In contrast to the initial stages, when equipment could handle only sausages and 'p rizsi' sausage, facilities today allow the manufacture of a range of products in breadcrumbs, ready meals, and a wide range of products rivalling or even superseding that offered by the meat industry. The volume of production has been continuously increasing since the 1980s. This has taken place partly due to innovation and more efficient marketing, which coincided with the needs of both international and domestic consumers. More importantly, however, such spectacular development occurred due to the utilisation of better meat as raw material, in most cases allowing the production of more attractively priced end-products.The above-described structure of the poultry industry and its level of concentration satisfy the requirements of the present day. We shall now look at the modernisation of production lines and technology. The following is a list of slaughter farms and breed characteristics, including further processing premises:
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