Animal casing, processed meat and the areas of production

ANIMAL CASING,PROCESSED MEAT AND THE AREAS OF PRODUCTION

Animal Casing

  • India, being a country with numerous states and vast area , has resources for production of animal casings of high quality with excellent calibration and shining colour .
  • This makes India one of the major exporter of animal casing in the world.
  • Animal products including the products or animal casing like Bladders and Stomachs of Animals, Casings of Other animals, Cattle Casings, Guts for Animal Casings, Sheep Casings etc.
  • The individual products under this sub-head are as below
    • Cattle Casings
    • Sheep Casings
    • Casings of other animals
    • Guts for animal casings
    • Bladders and stomach of animals

India Facts and Figures

  • India’s export of Animal Casing products has reached to Rs 6.84 Crores in 2007-08

Major Export Destinations (2007-08) 

  •  Vietnam, Italy, South Africa, Portugal , Spain.

Processed Meat

  • The total processing capacity in India is over 1 million tons per annum, of which 40-50 percent is utilized. India exports more than 500,000 tons of meat, mostly buffalo meat.
  •  Indian buffalo meat is witnessing strong demand in international markets due to its lean character and near organic nature.
  • Unlike cow slaughter, there is no social taboo in killing buffalo for meat. Goat and lamb meat are relatively small segments where local demand is outstripping supply.
  • The production levels in these two categories have been almost constant at 950,000 tons with annual exports of less than 10,000 tons.
  • The recent trend in India is to establish large abattoirs-cum-meat processing plants with the latest technology.
  • India has already established ten state-of-art mechanized abattoirs-cum-meat processing plants in various states based on slaughtering buffaloes and sheep.
  • These plants are environmentally friendly, where all the slaughterhouse byproducts are utilized in the production of meat-cum-bone meal, tallow, bone chips and other value-added products. Several more are under construction.
  • The plants follow all the sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures required by the International Animal Health code of World Organization for Animal Health (O.I.E.). These plants mostly produce buffalo meat for export.
  • India is becoming a major buffalo meat producing country and will be a main player in the international market with additional establishment of the state-of-art-abattoirs cum meat processing plants.

Areas of Production

  • Andhra Pradesh , West Bengal , Maharashtra , Kerala, Delhi , Uttar Pradesh , Rajasthan are the key areas of Processed meat production in India.
  • The individual products under this sub-head are as below
    • Sausages & Canned Meat
    • Homogenized Meat Preparations
    • Preserved Meats
    • Other Poultry Meat
    • Preserved Meat Of Bovine Animals
    • Meat Extracts & Meat Juices

India Facts and Figures

  • India export of Processed Meat production has increased from Rs. 7.13 Crores in 2006-07 to Rs.12.96 Crores in 2007-08 and from 860.69 Qty (Mt) in 2006-07 to 1245.47 Qty (Mt) in 2007-08.

Major Export Destinations (2007-08)

  • Vietnam, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, and Ghana
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