Hungary: Milk becomes more expensive, but not because of milk producer

Zoltán Harcz, Managing Director of TT The most important result of the last year and a half is that despite the Covid epidemic, the Hungarian dairy sector was able to stay afloat. During this period, it never happened that dairy farmers took to the streets and poured milk anywhere, as happened a few dozen years ago. We were able to maintain the contractual relationship - with very few exceptions - there was milk on the shelves all the time, even though the packaging material was often stuck on the outside of the border seal. However, the epidemic came at the same time, during which time milk production in Hungary also increased significantly. We produce much more milk last year and again this year, which means that only a small amount has separated producers from 2 billion kilograms of milk production a year. The production data of the CSO in 2020 is 1961.4 million liters. We haven’t produced so much raw milk in twenty years! If we were to reach this ‘dream limit’ this year, we ...