What it's like to be a happy goat farmer in Romania

While a number of Balkan countries struggle with a shortage of milk production on the domestic market and ban exports, Romania answers the question of what makes a happy goat farmer. There are such and they give an idea how others can approach the state called happiness. Hard times: Farmers feed the goats with fodder for the winter However, to think that everything is "flowers and roses" in our northern neighbor would be wrong. The sector is struggling with rising production costs and the insufficiently high purchase price of raw milk. The price of goat's milk remains low, even after several processors offered a higher price, says Andreja Angel, vice president of the National Association of Goat Breeders from Romania - CAPRIROM, an organization with about 180,000 head of livestock, Agrointel reports. According to him, the goat's milk market has not kept pace with recent increases in diesel and feed prices, so higher prices paid by processors are not helping. Since the end of ...