Amount of milk supplied by Latvian dairy farmers down 3.2% in June

• Published date: 18 July 2022
• Publication title: LETA

RIGA, July 18 (LETA) - The amount of raw milk supplied by Latvian dairy farmers in June dropped by 3.2 percent from the same period a year ago to 72,048 tons, according to the information from the Latvian Agricultural Data Center.

Meanwhile, purchases of organic raw milk decreased by 11.6 percent year-on-year to 5,124 tons in June 2022, and processing of organic milk increased by 11.1 percent to 3,167 tons.

In June 2022, there were 10,145 dairy herds registered in Latvia, down 10.7 percent from the same period a year ago. Of all the dairy herds, 5,235...