The amount of cow’s milk collected in Romania in the first 3 months of this year amounted to about 290,000 tons, the National Institute of Statistics announced on Monday. This amount was “turned” into drinking milk (90 thousand tons), cream, yogurt, butter and cheeses. The production of butter decreased the most (-13.2%), also shows the INS

Milk is one of the products that rose in price the most before the Competition Council pressured it to reach a deal to reduce shelf mats by 20%.

Romania annually imports more than 220 million liters of milk from abroad; from Denmark and Spain to the nearest Belgium, France or Greece – all European countries pour milk into Romanians’ cups. .

Compared with 1989, the import of milk has increased more than 25 times. Over the past 30 years, production has halved

In the production of milk, five countries of the European Union are among the 20 most important countries in the world: Germany has a total production of 33.1 million tons, which is more than 8 thousand kg/animal and an average production per inhabitant of almost 400 liters, says the head of the INS. France ranks second in the EU with a production of 25.5 million tons, an average production per animal of 7.2 thousand liters and an average production per capita of more than 390 liters.

Poland is one of the important producers at the European level, achieving a milk production of 14.2 million tons/year, with a milk yield per animal of 6.4 thousand kg and an average production per inhabitant of 370 liters.

Italy reached a production of almost 12 million tons with an average milk yield per animal of 7.1 thousand liters and an average production per inhabitant of almost 200 liters. With a yield per animal equal to that of Italy, the Netherlands achieves an annual production of over 10.6 million tonnes, which is 618 liters per capita.

Ireland is the country in the European Union with the highest milk production per capita, almost 1,600 liters

Ireland is the country in the European Union with the highest milk production per capita, almost 1,600 liters, with a total production of more than 7.8 million tons and milk per animal of almost 5,300 tons.

Returning to Romania, our country has a milk production of almost 4.2 million tons, and the reliance on an animal is much lower than in the case of other important countries of the European Union, only 3.62 thousand tons of milk, the production per inhabitant is 215 liters.

The above statistics once again confirm the weak development of the livestock industry in Romania compared to the significant potential we have.

Under these conditions, productivity is significantly lower than in the livestock sector in countries with notable results in the livestock sector, forcing Romania to import a significant amount of agri-food products, putting great pressure on the trade balance with agricultural products. of food products, says the head of INS Tudorel Andrej in his recently published book “Romania’s Foreign Trade in Agri-Food Products 1990-2020”.

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