Bulgaria: Livestock and purchased milk are shrinking

Published 2023년 1월 3일

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The number of dairy cows and ewes in Poland has decreased in 2022, leading to a drop in purchased milk. The European Union continues to experience a decline in milk volume, although production has risen in several countries. The average purchase price of milk in the EU has increased, but the price of raw cow's milk in Italy remains stable. The European Dairy Board is advocating for energy price caps to offset production costs and other challenges such as drought, shortage of fodder and fertilizers, and the closure of milk processing plants.

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The number of dairy cows for the past year 2022 fell by 202 thousand heads, as a year earlier it had reached 214.9 thousand. A decline is also predicted for dairy sheep - up to 1.01 million heads compared to 1.053 million a year earlier, analysts from the Center for Economic Research in Agriculture point out in their meat bulletin. NOKA makes a blacklist of incorrect dairies Purchased milk for the January-October period decreased by about 4.3%, and purchased cow's milk shrank by 4.6%, which is expected to reach 622 thousand tons by the end of the year. Internationally, the fall in the volume of purchased milk in the EU continues, and for January-September 2022 it is 0.4% compared to a year earlier. Production in 9 member states grew, most significantly in Austria (+3.2%), Latvia (+2.4%), Poland (+2.1%), Belgium (+2%). The average purchase price per kilogram of milk continues to grow for the whole EU - for September by 4.1%, and for October by 3.8%. At the same time, the price of ...

Source: Agri