How many liters of Bulgarian and imported milk are processed in one year?

Dairy processing enterprises in the country put a total of 712,975 thousand liters of raw milk into their production in 2023. This is 3.3% more than the previous year, according to an analysis of the Ministry of Agriculture on the situation of the milk and dairy products market, published in September 2024 Read more: How will farmers control the raw milk they produce? 673,699 thousand liters of Bulgarian milk (85% of the total yield of milk for the year) and about 39.3 thousand liters of imported raw materials were processed. Domestic raw material used saw a slight increase of 1% year-on-year, while imported raw milk grew by 68.5%, but the amount remained a relatively low share (5.5%) of total industrial processing. In percentage terms, the processing of sheep's milk increased most significantly - by 12.2%. The increase in the input volumes of cow and goat milk was less pronounced, by 3% and 1%, respectively. Only processed buffalo and mixed milk is less compared to the previous ...