Development of Dairy Industry in Israel

DILSHODBEK LUKMONOV

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

Israel's agricultural industry has made a huge breakthrough over the past 60 years. In the 1950s, food there was issued on cards, and 80% of the milk was imported.Today, the country provides itself with food at 95%, importing certain types of products (oilseeds, coffee, cocoa, sugar), and exporting agricultural products annually brings Israel almost $ 4 billion in profit. And this despite the fact that due to the arid climate in agriculture, only 20% of the land is used, but Israeli farmers have achieved particularly striking successes in dairy farming. Milk yield per cow has grown and tendency is not stoping, and by this indicator, Israel has been ahead of other countries for several years. If you characterize Israeli livestock in one word, it will be "rationality." Farmers are not faced with the task of getting as much milk as possible - they strive to make the production process as efficient as possible and supply raw materials suitable for processors to dairies. The number of livestock in the country is controlled (about 125 thousand cows are kept on farms), and milk can be sent for processing only by quotas. Thus, the state regulates prices in the market, the stability of milk purchase prices. Israel is one of few places where cooperative farming is developing with good financial gain while in the most part of the world, cooperatives does not exist anymore or at the point where disadvantages overcome advantages.

Keywords

milk quotas, cattle breeding, dairy production, agriculture

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 17. 7. 2020

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Luděk Stádník, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources

Bachelor programme / field:
Agriculture and Food / Agriculture and Food