According to data from 2023, the Argentine dairy chain withstood the blow of the crisis

In 2023 and despite the crisis that the dairy sector went through, the number of dairy farms in Argentina remained stable and there were very slight differences when measuring production variables. According to the Observatory of the Argentine Dairy Chain (OCLA), last year The stock of cows being milked was 1.58 million heads, just above the 1.52 million that were recorded the previous year. Meanwhile, milk production in 2023 barely reached 11,325 million liters, a 2 % lower in the year-on-year comparison, as a result of food shortages and a climate that hit unevenly throughout the year. In this sense, Argentine dairy farming has continued in the same productive range for years, without being able to take off noticeably, far from the 12,000 million liters per year. SURPRISING DATA In this difficult context that primary activity has been dragging on for at least six years months, one of the data that caught attention in the OCLA report is that the volume milked was obtained with ...