Italy: Campania, buffalo supply chain, milk price collapses

The Campania buffalo supply chain is once again in turmoil, this time due to an alleged crisis of overproduction of milk complained of by dairies, many of which have refrigerators full of frozen milk, not suitable for the production of Mozzarella di bufala campana dop. And in the last period there has been a flurry of failed extensions of supply contracts of buffalo milk suitable for the production of Mozzarella di bufala campana dop to non-destagionalized farms, which therefore have more milk in the winter, when the demand for mozzarella drops. Furthermore, farmers who can guarantee the destagionalization of calving have been offered a price of milk at the farm of 1.55 euros per kilogram, compared to 1.80 euros practiced until September in Caserta. This situation - which has been occurring since the beginning of October - is putting 400 buffalo livestock farms in the provinces of Caserta, Salerno and Latina at risk. Coldiretti, Confagricoltura, Cia and Copagri, after a meeting of ...