Milk purchases in Latvia almost unchanged over the year

Latvia bought 130.64 thousand tonnes of raw milk in January and February, 0.2% more than in the same period last year, according to data released by the Latvian Agricultural Data Centre.

In January 68.43 thousand tonnes and in February 62.21 thousand tonnes of milk were purchased.

In the first two months of this year, organic milk alone was bought 11.2% less than a year ago, at 5.4 thousand tonnes.

The number of cows milked in the country in the year to the end of last month fell by 4.6% to 118.17 thousand, of which those used for milk production fell by 4.2% to 103.86 thousand.