Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXI, Issue 1
Written by Ion Tudor COMAN, Livia VIDU, Gheorghe Emil MĂRGINEAN
The paper aims to present the evolution of Milk Production during the period 2007 -2016 in Romania and also in the European Union. It is based on the statistical data provided by the National Institute of Statistics, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Eurostat and other open sources. During the analyzed period, livestock has continuously decreased in Romania, compared to the year of Romania's accession in the European Union (2007), in 2016 the livestock (dairy cow) was 418,109 less, representing a smaller percentage of 25.82% of livestock in 2016 as compared to 2007. In comparison to the production of cow milk achieved in the first year of Romania's accession to the European Union, production of 2016 is lower by 184,420 tons, respectively by 16.22%. Regarding the productivity of the milk quantity, in relation to the number of existing dairy cows, it is noticed that the productivity increased in 2016, ie if in 2007 there was a production of 1,136,372 tons of milk with a number of 1,619,241 dairy cows, in 2016 there was a production of 951,952 tons of milk with a total of 1,201,132, respectively milk production per dairy cow increased from 0.70 tons in 2007 to 0.79 tons of milk per cow in 2016, the productivity increase being about 13% expressed as a percentage.
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