Global dairy – Facing new challenges from dairy alternatives
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Published Oct 3, 2020
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Since 1970, global fluid milk production has gone up from 392 million tonne to 852 million tonne in 2019, according to WHO-FAO estimates.
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This jump in production also saw India become the largest producer of milk, with approximately 192 million tonne produced in 2019. The FAO also projects milk production to grow 1.6%p.a. to 997 million tonne by 2029. Per capita milk consumption, expressed in the form of dairy solids kg per capita per year is given below: Source: OECD/FAO (2020), “OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook”, OECD Agriculture statistics (database), http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/agr-outl-data-en. A few stark differences are visible from the table above. In the Western market there is little growth, and even long-term declines as in the case of processed dairy in EU and fresh dairy in the US. China too shows very little demand for dairy products. On the other hand, Pakistan and India have very high per capita consumption which is also growing both for fresh and processed dairy. GHG footprint Fluid milk and mildly processed fresh dairy products are not largely traded across countries. This points to the exacerbation of ...
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