Feed & Additive Magazine Issue 4 May 2021

MARKET REPORT 68 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE May 2021 A ccording to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, about 150 million households worldwide produce milk. While in most of the developing countries production is carried out in small family farms, in developed countries the trans- formation to large-scale industrial enterprises continues intensely. The annual milk production ob- tained from all these enterprises is approximately 850 million tons. Almost all of this production is ob- tained from cows, buffalo, goats, sheep and camels. More than 80 percent of the total production from all species is provided only Global Dairy Industry and Trends World milk production is expected to increase by 1.6 percent annually between 2020 and 2029 and reach 997 million tons in 2029, according to a report prepared by OECD-FAO. This report reveals that the increase in milk yield is highly related to the diet. In countries where grazing-based livestock breeding is carried out, milk production increases are mostly related to the number of herds, while in countries where special feeding is common, production increases due to productivity. By Derya Yıldız