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Amount of fresh milk supplied by Latvian dairy farmers in H1 down 2% y-o-y
BC, Riga, 13.07.2018.
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Print versionThe amount of fresh milk supplied by Latvian dairy farmers in the first half of this year dropped 1.95 % from the same period of last year to 385,218 tons, according to the information from the Latvian Agricultural Data Center writes LETA.
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In June, the amount of fresh milk supplied by the farmers
fell 7.2% y-o-y to 71,934 tons.
The number of dairy cows in Latvia continued shrinking. In
June 2018, there were 149,883 dairy cows registered in Latvia, down 2.87 % from
June 2017 when there were 154,312 dairy cows in Latvia. Of all the dairy cows
registered in Latvia, 130,869 were producing milk in June, down 4.05 % from the
same month in 2017.
According to the preliminary data, the average purchase
price of fresh milk in Latvia in May this year declined 0.7% to EUR 267.4 per
ton. The Agricultural Data Center has yet to release information on the average
milk purchase price for June.
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