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March 1, 2021 6:10 am
At the end of 2020, domestic milk intake in Ireland reached just shy of 8.3 billion litres – up more than 305 million litres on the 7.9 billion recorded for the previous year – according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
2020 also saw fat and protein levels of the national herd increase to 4.20% fat and 3.55% protein, from 4.17% fat and 3.54% protein in 2019.
With the closure of the restaurants and hospitality sector for an extended portion of 2020, milk sold for human consumption was down to 523.6 million litres from 533.2 million litres in 2019.
With products like butter and cheese seeing increases in consumption, 11.8 thousand tonnes for butter and nine thousand tonnes for cheese.