The bar chart shows how the proportion of dairy production in the top three producer countries changed in 2012. Overall, EU produced milk and cheese in high degrees among others, but its level is lower in butter and milk powder productions. There are 6 different countries – India, US, Brazil, New Zealand, China, and EU – in the dairy production.
Focusing on the milk and cheese productions first, EU emerged as the highest producer of milk and cheese with their proportions standing at 1,792,970 metric tonnes (MT) and 1,120 MT respectively in 2012. Its runner-up was India in milk production with 127,000 MT and in cheese production was US with 4,925 MT. While, ranking third – US – with 90,058 MT in milk production, in cheese production, this level is possessed by Brazil with 700 MT, marking the lowest figure of this production.
When it comes to butter and milk powder productions, India produced 4,600 MT butter products, this being a very high rate in this production. EU and US made butter with respective figures of 2,040 MT and 810 MT and these figures were quite very low compared to the top producer – India.
In terms of milk powder production, China comprised 1,200 MT milk production and this ranking was the highest proportion of this production. Others – New Zealand and EU – produced 1,110 MT and 770 MT of the total number of the products.