Guyana’s Cattle Industry
Guyana — Cattle Industry
Population
1990: 749894; 2025: 835986
Cattle inventory
1990: 160000; 2024: 98851 An
FAOSTAT (Production: Crops and livestock products)
Beef production
1990: 2200; 2024: 3256 t
FAOSTAT (Production: Crops and livestock products)
Beef imports
1990: 0; 2024: 770 t
FAOSTAT (Trade: Crops and livestock products)
Beef exports
1990: 0; 2024: 0.25 t
FAOSTAT (Trade: Crops and livestock products)
Beef slaughtered
1990: 15500; 2024: 11106 An
FAOSTAT (Production: Crops and livestock products)
Beef offtake rate
1991: 10.5; 2024: 11.2 %
Derived as head slaughtered ÷ total cattle inventory × 100.
Derived from FAOSTAT cattle inventory and slaughter
Selected grain and feed imports
Supplier breakdown from the FAOSTAT Detailed Trade Matrix, latest year with recorded import value per country; feed items summed. Reported by the importing country.
FAOSTAT (Trade: Crops and livestock products)
Maize (corn)
1991: 0 tonnes; 2024: 56605.58 tonnes
Wheat
1991: 55000 tonnes; 2024: 50730.92 tonnes
Barley
1991: 0 tonnes; 2024: 44.63 tonnes
Sorghum
Baseline: Unavailable tonnes; 2016: 20 tonnes
Oats
1991: 0 tonnes; 2024: 0.15 tonnes
Soya beans
1991: 0 tonnes; 2024: 110.21 tonnes
Cake of soya beans
1991: 1100 tonnes; 2024: 11284.31 tonnes