Professional paper
State of the art and future prospective of dairy sector in the Republic of Croatia
Jasmina Lukač Havranek
orcid.org/0000-0002-2653-3505
; Zavod za mljekarstvo, Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Svetošimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb
Petar Bosnić
Abstract
In last ten years, cattle breeding sector as well as milk production had suffered huge changes. First of all, the changes have moved towards the rapid decrease in number of cattle due to the war situation when 120.000 cows were killed. In the period from 1990 - 1999 the number of cows and heifers in fawn was reduced for 66.22 % (196.000 animals), sheep for breeding were reduced for 37.6 % (215.000 animals) and goats for 50%. As a consequence of this situation milk production decreased for 31.38 % which makes 284.49 millions litres less. Post-war reconstruction of animal fund stopped further decrement of livestock production. In this production the dominant role has production of cow's milk which participates with 9.89 % in total milk production. Republic of Croatia stimulates this production with agricultural policy measures such as subsidies and premium that participate in producers sale price with 35%. The greatest improvement was realised in milk supply, which increased to 371.29 I in 1999 with comparison to the 1995 when amounted 250.64 I. Milk marketability came to 59.73 % in 1999.
Keywords
situation; production; market; development
Hrčak ID:
93332
URI
Publication date:
6.12.2000.
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