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Reviewing the dairy situation
Author(s) -
METCALF R J
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
international journal of dairy technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1471-0307
pISSN - 1364-727X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0307.1986.tb02397.x
Subject(s) - dairy industry , business , product (mathematics) , agricultural science , milk products , food science , added value , value (mathematics) , intervention (counseling) , chemistry , environmental science , mathematics , medicine , finance , statistics , geometry , psychiatry
The world, EEC and UK dairy situations are briefly reviewed. The UK is unusual in the EEC in not being self sufficient in milk supplies yet still selling substantial amounts of product into intervention: nearly 50% of UK butter is sold to intervention, a larger proportion than that of any other EEC country. Increased concentration on new added‐value products is essential.