Cattle, sheep and lambs, pigs, and chickens for egg production are some of the livestock produced in Tasmania. A large proportion of the production of cattle for meat and milk was centred in the Mersey-Lyell Region (50.8%) and the Northern Region (39.2%) in 2000-01.
In 2000-01, most of Tasmania's pig production, 73.3%, and sheep and lamb production, 52.7%, was in the Northern Region.
In 2000-01, most of Tasmania's chickens for egg production, 54.9%, was in the Greater Hobart-Southern Region, followed by the Northern Region, 35.3%.
LIVESTOCK, Tasmanian regions(a)
|
 | | Greater Hobart-Southern
| Northern
| Mersey-Lyell
| Tasmania
|
| | 1997 | 2001 | 1997 | 2001 | 1997 | 2001 | 1997 | 2001 |
| | | | | | | | | |
| | '000 | '000 | '000 | '000 | '000 | '000 | '000 | '000 |
|
| Cattle | | | | | | | | |
| Meat | 89.0 | 56.8 | 213.1 | 170.0 | 212.4 | 199.7 | 514.6 | 426.5 |
| Milk | 6.3 | 6.7 | 77.9 | 79.4 | 126.4 | 123.7 | 210.6 | 209.8 |
| Total | 95.3 | 63.5 | 291.0 | 249.4 | 338.8 | 323.4 | 725.2 | 636.3 |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Sheep and lambs | 1,780.0 | 1,363.7 | 2,014.2 | 1,731.7 | 182.4 | 188.9 | 3,976.6 | 3,284.2 |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Pigs | 2.3 | *1.6 | 17.3 | 16.2 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 23.9 | 22.1 |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Chickens | | | | | | | | |
| For egg production | 154.5 | 146.6 | 93.6 | 94.4 | 38.5 | 26.2 | 286.7 | 267.2 |
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* estimate has a relative standard error of between 25% and 50% and should be used with caution. Data is subject to sampling variability too high for most practical purposes.
(a) 1997 data relate to the year ended 31 March; 2001 data relate to the year ended 30 June.
Source: ABS data available on request, Agricultural Census. |
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