Turbulent times for dairy industry in Central Asia

Skyrocketing costs, price caps and insufficient state aid hampered the dairy industry across Central Asia in 2022. Production decline and new price fluctuations seem very likely in the next year, provided the current trends continue, according to dairy plant managers. What is currently seen is that this part of the world lacks political stability and problems with food supply threaten governments with unpredictable consequences. Uzbekistan is the largest milk producer in Central Asia, with ar