Bulgaria: Dairy and Products Annual
In 2018, the Bulgarian dairy industry continued to stabilize. Despite a decline in the dairy inventory and a 7 percent decrease in cow milk production, milk collection increased and the industry processed 11 percent more cow milk than in 2017. This occurred due to increasingly larger operations, improved milk yield averages, industry consolidation, as well as an overall decline in small, subsistence dairy farms. In the first five months of 2019, milk deliveries declined by less than 2 percent compared to the same period of 2018. Post expects dairy cow inventories and milk deliveries to stabilize by 2020. Bulgaria’s unstable animal health situation remains the biggest threat to its dairy industry.
