Bulgaria: Dairy and Products Annual
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Bulgaria’s dairy industry continued to stabilize in 2019. Despite a reduction in the total dairy herd and an almost nine-percent drop in cow milk production, milk collection and processing increased over 2018. This was due to increasingly larger operations, improved milk yields, industry consolidation, and an overall decline in subsistence dairy farms. During the first five months of 2020, milk deliveries continued to grow by six percent over the same period of 2019. Post expects the dairy herd inventory and milk deliveries to stabilize by 2021. Bulgaria’s challenging animal health situation remains the biggest threat to its dairy industry. COVID-19 did not dramatically affect Bulgarian dairy consumption, with some products, notably butter and cheese, achieving higher consumer demand. The Government of Bulgaria approved a temporary mandate that retailers must stock a majority of Bulgarian-origin dairy products sourced from locally milk producers during the ongoing COVID pandemic.
