Pantnagar Journal of Research

Abstract

In South East Asia region rising incomes, growing population, and increasing urbanization have contributed to growth in livestock production and meat consumption. The study examined the status of production and consumption of meat in different countries of South East Asia region from 2000 to 2017. Descriptive statistics like average, percentage, etc. are used in the study. In South East Asia region, meat production increased about 114 per cent, which was much higher than that of 55.33 per cent increased in Asia continent as a whole, but with a lot of variations across different countries which ranged from 7.61 per cent increase in Singapore to about 574 per cent increase in Myanmar. Highest meat consumption increased was recorded by Myanmar (575.40 per cent), while lowest was in Cambodia (3.61 per cent) during this period. Maximum increase in the per capita meat consumption during 2017 over the year 2000, has been found in Myanmar to the tune of 491 per cent, while lowest increase was registered by Thailand (0.20 per cent).