The comprehensive report investigates major developments, new trends, and the evolution of the demand for dairy products, as well as gathering statistics on production, consumption and trade in all regions of the world.
The country reports are a significant feature of the World Dairy Situation Report, providing the most complete and detailed overview of the global dairy situation as possible.
In this section, individual nations present information on their own dairy sectors. International experts also contributed to the Forum chapter with an overview of the African dairy situation, an analysis of milk production and feeding systems worldwide, an analysis of the level of price variability among farm gate prices for a selected set of countries and a final contribution on water as a finite and vulnerable resource of the planet.
World Dairy Situation Report editor, Adriaan Krijger, said: “Last year was a golden dairy year. This year’s improvements have mainly to do with more consumption figures and more analysis throughout the report, but we also revamped the country reports changing the order of the items to a more logical one.”
The report, based on questionnaires filled in by IDF national committees, showed that global milk production jumped by 2.5% to 749 million tonnes in 2011 on the back of higher milk prices. Speaking at the World Dairy Summit, Krijger said that this increase in milk production was an improvement on 2010’s year on year increase of 2%.
Krijger added: “The weather in 2011 was favourable and demand for dairy products was strong, resulting in higher prices. The extra milk production was easily absorbed by the global market.
“Increasing GDP and strong population growth in these regions has resulted in a surge in demand for dairy in the developing world. The four major dairy exporting countries or regions are Australia, the EU, New Zealand and US.
“The world dairy trade amounted to 58.2 tonnes in 2011, an increase of 10%. This is well above the average growth rate of 4% in the past decade. All exporters benefited from this boost in demand, while Europe also had in its favour a more competitive euro/dollar exchange rate.”
Source: IDF
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