2023: 21.5 million tons of raw milk were produced in Turkey

The volume of production of raw milk in Turkey in 2023 decreased by 0.4 percent to 21,481,567 tons. This is reported by the Statistical Institute of Turkey (Tüi̇k).

Compared to the previous year, the production of goat milk last year increased by 0.5 percent, cow’s milk – by 0.2 percent, and the production of sheep’s milk decreased by 12.5 percent, the production of buffalon milk was 1.3 percent of 1.3 percent .

Last year, 92.9 percent of the production of raw milk was cow’s milk, 4.3 percent – sheep, 2.5 percent – goat milk and 0.2 percent – buffalon milk.

The production of raw milk (tons) produced in Turkey in 2022 and 2023:

2022 2023 cow’s milk 19.912.135 19.961.908 buffalon milk 43.589 43.025 sheep’s milk 1.067.342 933.576 goat milk 540.426 543.058 Total 21.563.492 21.481.567