Crisis and lower consumption of dairy products

Consumption of dairy products in Bulgaria decreased significantly during the first half, as Bulgarians, squeezed by the crisis, mainly to buy cheap and low quality products.
With a 20 percent decreased consumption of dairy products for the last six months compared to last year, said agency Focus as referring Dimitar Zorov, President of the Association of mlekoprerabotvatelite and director of the National Board milk.
In his words began to fall drastic happens in May and June.
This trend reflects extremely negatively, according to him, because in summer are raw milk at a higher volume.
In Sofia, the consumption of dairy foods has decreased by a further 20 percent over the past 20 days. Zorov explained that this is normal in otpuskarskiya period happens every year at this time.
In his words, the decline in demand at national level in parallel distributed and can not determine a decrease in consumer demand to only one specific product. He noted that during the summer period, yogurt and cheese is still a good level of consumption.
It is no secret, however, look to balance mlekoprerabotvatelite reflux clients, he said. In his current low prices of dairy products to maintain their reduced pravoproportsionalno quality.
Overall reduction in prices of dairy products can not be expected Zorov said.
Otherwise, the reduction must go and raw materials. This is murder for dairy farmers who subsist in this way he said.
There is a sharp drop in prices of dairy raw material throughout the European Union. In global terms occurred more production than consumption. Therefore the price of milk in Bulgaria and the EU have declined nearly twice commented to Focus Tachev Michael, President of the National Association of mlekoprerabotvatelite.
According to him, a movement of production to market demand niskobyudzhetni and dairy products. Factor in his words „lower price“ does not imply reduced quality.
These are just different types of products, he explained.
For example Tachev a production of different types of cheese – some are made with 5 liters of milk, others with 7 liters. Both products are quality, but having different technology.
All this leads to increased competition in the dairy sector. The result was a surplus economy appears to pressure prices downward. Pressing down the prices it crucial support that farmers receive.
What you receive as subsidies Bulgarian farmers is nearly four times less than what they learn French, for example, he said. As a consequence of this is that you see on the Bulgarian market of milk products imported from Greece and Germany at lower prices.
In his significant decrease in revenues occurred in the small farms for milk. The crisis did not podminava and larger milk producers because they have no land on which to receive subsidies. This is because subsidies in Bulgaria is determined according to the area that farmers have explained Tachev. He said that all the chaos that occurred, would create serious problems of market milk.

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