The processing of milk in 2025 reached a five-year peak (INFOGRAPHIC)

Last year, 717,532 thousand liters of milk were processed in Bulgarian dairies. This is a record amount for the last 5 years, with the lowest figures recorded in 2022 – 679,534 thousand liters of milk. Year Amount (thousand liters) 2021 697,884 2022 679,534 2023 708,227 2024 691,602 2025 717,532 The reported growth is mainly due to cow's milk, which entered the processing plants – 686,219 thousand liters. The sheep population has left its mark and the amount of processed milk has decreased. Dairies processed 19,638 thousand liters of sheep's milk, while a year earlier the amount was 20,573 thousand liters, and in 2023, 24,272 thousand liters were processed. The situation with goat's milk is similar – 8,485 thousand liters entered the processing plants last year, 10,171 thousand liters in 2024, and 10,707 thousand liters in 2023. A decline was also noted in the processed buffalo milk. Traditionally, the largest amount of raw material was used for the production of fermented milk – ...