date:Apr 01, 2014
This contributes 3.3 billion to UK Gross Domestic Product directly through supply chain and wage impacts, according to latest figures from Oxford Economics on behalf of the British Poultry Council.
The amount spent by the sector on input goods and services was pegged at 1.6 billion. The report added that processors spent more than farms at 53 per cent of overall spend.
In employment terms, UK poultry meat production supported over 73,000 jobs in 2012.
Of these, 35,400 are directly employed in