The price of milk has not changed since 2014

Consumer prices for milk and dairy products remained virtually unchanged. Rabat-Salé-Kenitra region, Morocco's first dairy zone.

Due to the high price of Moroccan "Centrale Danone" milk boosts a few months ago, it has had serious consequences for both the company and the dairy industry. However, the motive for boycotting was unwarranted, as the price of milk has not increased since 2014. The information that was recently confirmed by the HCP note, which described the main trends that the subsidiary marked during the past 10 years. It seems that consumer prices for milk and dairy products have remained almost unchanged since 2014, increasing by 0.1% and 0.3% respectively.

Stability, which has passed after an increase of about 4 years. In the period from 2010 to 2014, the milk price index curve (see Figure 1) has increased by an average of 0.9% since 2010, in particular by 3.8%. % and 2.8% respectively, prices of condensed milk and infant formula.

Meanwhile, the prices of dairy products increased by 0.7%, which was caused by a 6.2% increase in whey prices and an increase of 3.9% in cheese. On the other hand, consumer prices for yogurt and cream fraction remained relatively stable.

Milk price stabilization is a long-term growth phase from 2010 to 2014. Dairy production slowed down from 2014, rising from 5% between 2009 and 2013 to 1.9%. 2014-2017

However, despite the decrease of imports in dairy products other than cheese and butter in 2015 and 2016, which added this moderate, the trade balance of milk and milk products remained a deficit. The deficit, which in 2017 was almost 640 MDH.

Morocco continued to import almost 60% of dairy product requirements (infant formula, UHT and milk powder), mainly from the Netherlands (32.1%) and France (27.5%). %)

Rabat Island-Kenyatur Region, the first dairy sector in Morocco

It also follows from this observation that the Rabat Island-Kenitra region is the first dairy sector in the Kingdom producing 522 million liters of milk. It follows the regions of Beni Mellal-Khénifra, Casablanca-Settat and Marrakech-Safi, which account for 47% of the country's dairy production.

In 2017, the total collection capacity of 2,800 dairy collection centers exceeded 2.5 million liters of milk per day, processed in 122 local industrial units. It should be noted that the dairy sector accounts for an average of 5% of agricultural production and accounts for 10.7% of the agri-food sector.

The price of milk has not changed since 2014 Last modified: November 11, 2018 up to Lamiae Boumehrou