There is also a decrease in milk and dairy products production. According to the Milk and Dairy Products Production statistics announced by the Turkish Statistical Institute on September 13, 2019, the amount of cow's milk collected in the first 7 months of this year was 5 million 789 thousand tons. In the same period last year, 6 million 115 thousand tons of cow's milk was collected. There is a decrease of 629 thousand tons in the amount of collected milk. Only in July 2019, there was a 7.5 percent decrease in the amount of milk collected compared to July 2018.