Cheese imports of Norway are up ten percent

There have been many more Norwegian cheeses in recent years, and the quality has increased. We win awards abroad. Nevertheless, we can once again state that imports have increased. In 2021, Norway imported 17,387 tonnes of cheese, an increase of 10.4 per cent from the previous year. The import value increased by NOK 104 million, or 9.1 per cent. It shows Market Report 2021, which the Norwegian Directorate of Agriculture presented last week. However, the increased imports are not due to the fact that we ate more cheese than before. On the contrary, the average Norwegian ate as much cheese last year as the year before. Thus, we ate less Norwegian cheese. Every Norwegian ate an average of 1.9 percent less Norwegian cheese last year than the year before. - In 2020, we had a sharp increase in the consumption of Norwegian cheese, as a result of the pandemic. A decline from that level is to be expected when entering a new "eating norm", says Marit Haugen, chairman of the board of Tine. - ...