6 million euros are needed to set up a dairy farm. And then another 7-10 years to wait for a plus.

The Association of Milk Producers said that the farms, which were reconstructed in 2009, still do not make a profit, continuing to spend earned money on business development.

The Association calculated the "milk accounting". If you build a modern dairy farm with loose housing for cows, a milking parlor and a cold type of housing, then you need 6,000 euros per cow. This is just the cost of arranging the premises. To equip the herd with animals with high productivity, -2,000 euros for a young, not calving cow.

And so that the farm is not unprofitable, the herd should be at least 600 cows and each cow should yield about 25 kg of milk. "Add here another 500 thousand euros of spending on machinery, the same green line for harvesting roughage, a feed mixer," they say Associations. So it turns out that the cost of building a farm reaches 6 million euros.