Turkey: TZOB President Bayraktar warned that milk breeders are going to slaughter
Turkiye
Published Aug 11, 2022
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Şemsi Bayraktar, Chairman of the Union of Chambers of Agriculture of Turkey (TZOB), pointed out that breeding animals in the hands of the milk producer were sent to slaughter due to feed costs, and said, "For the production to continue, either raw milk prices should be increased or measures should be taken to reduce and control feed prices." used the phrase.
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Bayraktar, in his statement regarding the problems experienced in the dairy industry, reminded that the National Dairy Council (USK) determined the recommended sales price of chilled raw milk as 7.50 liras per liter, to be effective as of 15 May 2022. Stating that they drew attention to the importance of revising milk prices due to the increase in production costs in this process, Bayraktar stated that at the point reached today, the producer can only buy 1 kilogram of feed by selling 1 kilogram of milk, and this situation is not sustainable. Stating that the cost of roughage such as alfalfa and corn silage increased in the new season, Bayraktar drew attention to costs such as diesel, electricity, labor, transportation and medicine. Pointing out that the amount of cow milk collected in the last 5 months decreased by 2.8 percent, drinking milk production by 6.5 percent and cheese production by 5.2 percent in the last 5 months compared to the same period of the previous year, ...
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