Cold storage farms sold 224.6 million products in 1Q26
According to the survey, 113.9 thousand heads of livestock were
slaughtered in slaughterhouses in the I quarter of 2026, of which 29.5
percent were cattle, 64.0 percent – pigs and 3.4 percent – sheep
and goats. The share of other livestock (excluding poultry)
slaughtered was 3.1 percent.In addition, the number of poultry
slaughtered in slaughterhouses during the reporting period amounted to
2 332.2 thousand.In total 13.5 thousand tons of meet (i.e. slaughtered
weight, including poultry meat) was produced by slaughterhouses during
the I quarter of 2026, of which 30.1 percent was beef, 28.6 percent
– poultry, 40.8 percent – pork, 0.4 percent – mutton and goat
meat, while the share of other meet was negligible.The service was
provided to 7.8 thousand persons, 53.6 percent of which were
households. Average monthly number of persons employed in
slaughterhouses equaled 1 027 persons. The average prices of the
slaughter services were: 42.9 GEL per cattle, 34.0 GEL per pig, and
13.4 GEL per sheep or goat.In the I quarter of 2026 the number of
active cold storage facilities in Georgia was 331 and most of them
were located in Shida Kartli region (66.5 percent). Active cold
storage facilities were also located in Tbilisi (12.4 percent),
Imereti region (5.4 percent), Kvemo Kartli region (4.2 percent),
Adjara AR (3.6 percent), Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region (2.4 percent),
SamtskheJavakheti region (2.1 percent), Kakheti region (1.8 percent),
Mtskheta-Mtianeti region (0.9 percent), Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo
Svaneti region (0.3 percent) and Guria region (0.3 percent).In the I
quarter of 2026, the service was provided to 355 customers. The number
of producers and resellers, from whom the products were purchased,
amounted to 826 persons. Average monthly number of persons employed in
cold storage facilities was 1 662. In total 97.5 thousand tons of
products were stored in cold storage facilities during the I quarter
of 2026, of which 20.1 percent was chicken meat (including frozen
meat), 31.9 percent – meat and meat products (including
semi-finished products, excluding chicken meat), 12.7 percent –
fish, 19.5 percent – fruits and vegetables, 10.2 percent – milk
products and 5.5 percent – other products.n the I quarter of 2026,
the share of own production in the total volume of products stored in
cold storage facilities was 17.0 percent, while the share of products
purchased for further resale was 25.5 percent and the share of
products stored as services was 57.5 percent. The service fee in the
same period amounted to 7.3 million GEL. In the I quarter of 2026, the
total value of products (28.6 thousand tons) sold by cold storage
facilities amounted to 224.6 million GEL, of which the share of
imported products was 38.5 percent, share of own production was 12.3
percent and the share of products (local) purchased for resale was
49.2 percent. Herewith, 28.3 percent of own production sold by cold
storage facilities was chicken meat. Significant share of imported
products was milk products (32.3 percent), meat and meat products
(including semi-finished products) (24.3 percent), chicken meat
(including frozen) (13.1 percent) and fish (9.0 percent). In the I
quarter of 2026, the value of products sold by cold storage facilities
on the foreign market amounted to 0.3 million GEL, which constituted
to 0.1 percent of the total value of products sold in the same period.
Mostly chicken meat were sold on the foreign markets. According to the
survey results, the average daily load per storage (out of total
storage capacity in percentage) was 51.6 percent in January, 48.5
percent in February and 43.5 percent in MarchThe total number of
active elevators in Georgia in the I quarter of 2026 was 31 and most
of them were located in Kvemo Kartli (35.5 percent) region, while 16.1
percent of active elevators were located in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
region, 16.1 percent in Kakheti region, 12.9 percent in Shida Kartli
region, 9.7 percent in Tbilisi, 6.5 percent in Imereti region and 3.2
percent in Guria region, - according to the preliminary data from the
National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).Total amount of
products sold by the elevators during the I quarter of 2026 amounted
to 59.9 thousand tons with total value of 61.0 million GEL. 31.6
percent of this value was imported production and 59.3 percent was
local (own produced) products. The biggest share in own production, in
terms of volume as well as value, had wheat flour, which constituted
to 80.8 percent of total own production sold by the elevators in the
same period.According to survey results, average daily load of
storages (out of total capacity of storages in percentage) amounted to
50.9 percent in January, 46.7 percent in February and 47.5 percent in
March.In the I quarter of 2026, the service was provided to 21
customers. The number of producers and resellers, from whom the
product were purchased for resale, was 49 persons, while the average
monthly number of persons employed in elevators equaled 439.In total
91 thousand tons of products were stored in elevators during the I
quarter of 2026, 65.5 percent of which was wheat and 16.8 percent –
soybean meal. The share of products purchased by the elevators for
resale in the total amount of products stored in the elevators was
82.9 percent in the same period.According to survey results, average
daily load of storages (out of total capacity of storages in
percentage) amounted to 50.9 percent in January, 46.7 percent in
February and 47.5 percent in March.
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