Kazakhstan among Top 3 global consumers of milk

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Kazakhstan is among the three leaders in the world on milk consumption, this was reported today by chairman of the Association of Legal Entities "Meat and dairy Union of Kazakhstan" Ivan Sauer.

"The share of imports of dairy products in 2013 increased compared with 2012. We produce, according to statistics, 5 million 500 thousand tons of milk", said in a briefing I.Sauer. This is due to the fact that small-scale production and partially average-scale production is "completely off of the recycling process of production". "As a rule, milk goes for animal feed, it is abnormal and wrong, because it is an expensive product", he added. Head of dairy and meat Union believes that to solve this problem, it is necessary to create cooperatives.