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Industry Locations |
| Major centres of chicken meat production have therefore developed adjacent to the major capital cities, although the industry is becoming more regionalised as those areas become increasingly urbanised. |
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Industry Statistics |
| The chicken meat industry has experienced strong growth over the past half century. Over the past ten years it has grown from 330.5 million chickens (producing 466,500 tonnes of meat) in 1994/95; to 429 million chickens (producing 698,000 tonnes) in 2005/06. |
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Structure and Ownership of the Meat Chicken Industry |
| The chicken meat industry now operates largely through vertical integration, with company ownership of breeding farms, multiplication farms, hatcheries, feed mills, some broiler growing farms and processing plants. |
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