Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXVI, Issue 2
Written by Nicoleta DEFTA, Livia VIDU, Robert MIHAI, Nela DRAGOMIR, Paula POȘAN, Izabela OPREA
Farmers receive subsidies from the state and an assessment of the living standard in the respective nation can be made based on the dynamics of cattle livestock and the development of dairy products. The EU Council receives data on these issues from EU nations each year.The data processed in the study were collected from the Annual Statistical Surveys. The data came from about 600 economic operators but summative data organization and presentation techniques (descriptive statistics) were used for processing. In Romania, during the analyzed period, even though the cattle herd decreased by 8.01%, milk production increased by 15.91% from 2016 to 2020, as farmers were interested in exploiting genetically valuable specimens. Butter production followed a sinusoidal trajectory, increasing in 2017 (177 tons), decreasing by 12 percent until 2019, and then increasing by 14.33 percent in 2020. Cheese production followed an upward trend ranging from 1 to 5.68 percent, with the highest determined increase (5 127 tons) in cheese production for 2018 compared to 2017.
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