The number of cows in Ukraine will decrease by 6.5% at the end of the year

Published 2024년 12월 4일

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Leonid Tulush from the Union of Dairy Enterprises of Ukraine highlights a significant decline in Ukraine's cow population, projecting a drop of over 6.5% by 2025, reducing the number to less than 1.2 million from over 2 million in 2018. This decline is accompanied by a nearly 50% reduction in farms and a 20% reduction in enterprises. Despite a 1.4 times increase in cow productivity over the past decade, milk production has decreased from 10.3 million tons in 2017 to an expected 7.3 million tons in 2024, marking a 29% decline. While milk production by enterprises remains stable, household production has plummeted by 43% since 2017.

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The head of the expert-analytical department of the Union of Dairy Enterprises of Ukraine (SMPU) Leonid Tulush told about this in the comment "BusinessCensor". In his opinion, the negative trend will continue this year: the total decrease by the beginning of 2025 will be more than 6.5% — the number of cows in Ukraine will be less than 1.2 million. "At the same time, at the beginning of 2018, there were more than 2 million heads in Ukraine, that is, more than 40% of the livestock was lost in 7 years. Of them: in farms, almost half of the population (from 1.55 million in 2018 to 0.8 million in 2025); at enterprises - almost 20% (from 0.47 million to less than 0.38 million, respectively)," he said. According to experts, the productivity of cows has increased by 1.4 times over the last ten years. However, milk production still decreased significantly — from 10.3 million tons in 2017 to ...

Source: AgroPortal.ua