Switzerland: Record production for Gruyère AOP last year

Gruyère AOP has a record production volume. Production quotas fell from 30,537 tonnes in 2018, including 550 tonnes of alpine cheese, to 31,210 tonnes last year, including 567 tonnes of alpine cheese (photo V. Gremaud). "The Interprofession du Gruyère (IPG) has allocated an additional 4% quota. Today, production has even reached 32,188 tonnes, including 580 tonnes of alp cheese," said Philippe Bardet, director of the IPG in an interview published Wednesday in La Liberté. "We are clearly on a very positive trend." "In four years, we have produced 1,600 tonnes more, and in certain categories of cheese age classes, our stocks are not sufficient to meet demand," notes further Philippe Bardet in the columns of the daily. As a reminder, just over half of the millstones (51%) are produced in the canton of Friborg. "The Covid-19 pandemic has played a positive role, once is not customary", notes Philippe Bardet to explain Success. "Regardless of the country, the population has had to ...