Bulgaria: Livestock and purchased milk are shrinking

The number of dairy cows for the past year 2022 fell by 202 thousand heads, as a year earlier it had reached 214.9 thousand. A decline is also predicted for dairy sheep - up to 1.01 million heads compared to 1.053 million a year earlier, analysts from the Center for Economic Research in Agriculture point out in their meat bulletin. NOKA makes a blacklist of incorrect dairies Purchased milk for the January-October period decreased by about 4.3%, and purchased cow's milk shrank by 4.6%, which is expected to reach 622 thousand tons by the end of the year. Internationally, the fall in the volume of purchased milk in the EU continues, and for January-September 2022 it is 0.4% compared to a year earlier. Production in 9 member states grew, most significantly in Austria (+3.2%), Latvia (+2.4%), Poland (+2.1%), Belgium (+2%). The average purchase price per kilogram of milk continues to grow for the whole EU - for September by 4.1%, and for October by 3.8%. At the same time, the price of ...