Meat supply enough for year-end events

Meat supply enough for year-end events

JAKARTA: City slaughterhouse operator PD Dharma Jaya said
Saturday that the supply of beef and pork in the city would
remain stable during the Christmas and New Year festivities.

"The demand for beef will only slightly increase during the
festivities. But, learning from experience of the last few years,
the demand for pork will soar," the company's president director
Liliansari Loedin said.

She said her company would continue to slaughter 2,000 head of
cattle every day as normal.

"But, we will increase the slaughter of pigs to 1,000 per day
three days before Christmas until the New Year, higher than the
400 to 500 pigs currently," she said.

Aside from pigs and cattle, Jakarta also consumes 300 goats
every day. -- JP