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For 16 million Dutch people as much milk is produced as throughout Ukraine

In late spring a group of Ukrainian milk producers and processors had the opportunity to visit the Netherlands and see the dairy industry of this country, let’s say, from within. Such visits are part of the Ukrainian-Dutch Infomoloko project, sold to Ukraine by company Friesian.

Friesian is one of the few consulting companies in Europe and even the world specializing on milk and dairy products exclusively — their quality, reduce cost, minimizing risk of contamination throughout the chain from production to consumption. The company has developed projects in various parts of the world: Indonesia, China, Russia, Ukraine, Middle East, Africa, where farmers want to produce more quality and inexpensive milk. As to the need for milk to be the cheapest and thus most qualitative, both producers and processors are unanimous. All they want to get more quality and cheap raw materials, and also evenly throughout the year. The company works closely with farmers and processors harmonizing their relationships. 

Logically, our journey started from Friesland, province, located in the north. It is regarded as the birthplace of the most common dairy breed — Holshtyn Frisian. Dairy cattle breeding started in Friesland about two thousand years ago. Historically, on this territory there has always been a lot of water. Fertile soils, generously watered, and climate friendlier for livestock breeding and farming, formed the basis for dairy cattle development. For centuries the production of milk and meat was for this area the only source of income. Frieslanders believe that the ability to produce and process milk is genetic. If you are not able to do this - you cannot continue your family, because there is nothing to feed them. This truth to those who work in the dairy business is relevant today. Land in Friesland today costs 40 thousand euro per 1 hectare. If you want to rent a good fertile soil for the production of milk, you will have to pay rent — thousands of Euros per hectare per year. If you need hired labor, then open your wallet wider: one hired worker will cost 50 thousand Euros per year. And that's not the end of the list of expenses. This part of the land is below the sea level and protected by the dam, and that’s why each farmer has to pay tax for the maintenance of protective structures. All this affects the cost of milk production. A positive point is a lower fee for transporting milk from farms to processing companies through paltry distance.

 

See full version in Milk and Farm Journal, № 2, September, 2010.

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