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The Meat Market in the Kingdom of Jordan

January 1996

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

1. General Overview of Jordan’s Livestock and Food Market

1.1.   Reliance on Imports

1.2.   Livestock in Jordan

1. Characteristics of the Meat Market

2.1.   The meat market in Amman district and outside it

2.2.   Prices

2.3.   Consumption, local production, and import

2.3.1.      Poultry

2.3.2.      Red Meat

1. Key Players in the Local Meat Industry

3.1.   Main producers

3.2.   Importers

1. Expansion Plans in the Meat Industry

4.1.   Livestock

4.1.1.      Australian involvement

4.2.   Poultry and Red Meat

1. Tariffs

5.1.   Meat, offal and other edible parts

5.2.   Prepared foods with meat content

1. Jordanian Exports of Meat

6.1.   Livestock

6.2.   Poultry

6.3.   Red Meat

6.4.   Processed Meat

6.5.   Export Prices

List of Tables

1. Jordan’s food imports 1990-1995
2. Official prices of meat products in Jordan, and changes in pricing during 1995
3. Import of slaughtered chickens - fresh, refrigerated and frozen
4. Import of slaughtered poultry (geese, ducks and guinea fowls), offal and other edible parts - fresh, refrigerated and frozen
5. Import of chicken livers - fresh, refrigerated, frozen, salted and in brine
6. Import of live cattle, excluding for breeding purposes
7. Import of live sheep
8. Import of live goats
9. Import of prepared and canned beef, mutton and goat meat
10. import of beef - fresh, refrigerated and frozen
11. Import of mutton and goat meat - fresh, refrigerated and frozen
12. Import of beef, mutton and goat offal and other edible parts - fresh, refrigerated and frozen
13. Import into Jordan sausages and similar products containing meat, offal and blood
14. import of other categories of meat not included in previous categories
15. Price of 1 kilogram of fresh and frozen meat in Jordan
16. Increase in prices of meat in Jordan in the years 1994-1995
17. Wholesale and retail prices paid for imported meat products
18. Export of live sheep
19. Jordan’s export of live goats
20. Export of slaughtered poultry - fresh, refrigerated and frozen
21. Jordan’s export of processed or preserved poultry
22. Jordan’s export of beef - fresh, refrigerated and frozen
23. Jordan’s export of beef, mutton and goat meat - processed or preserved
24. Jordan’s export of other types of meat - processed or preserved
25. Jordan’s export of sausages and similar products containing meat, offal and blood
26. Jordanian food industry – list of export prices

List of illustrations

1. Composition of livestock herds in Jordan, by head
2. Poultry production in Jordan
3. Breakdown of local meat production in Jordan
4. Local consumption versus exports of red meat in Jordan