Sheep and milk in Sardinia, it doesn't add up. Tore Piana, president of the agricultural study centre, is convinced of this. Numbers in hand, he calculates the production of each garment: less than half a liter of product per sheep every day. «Is this possible?», he asks, opening the debate, «Or are there many fewer female sheep than those registered in the national database of the zootechnical register? Or someone is being clever and hasn't registered the milk produced».
Provocative questions that come at the end of a simple reasoning, to say that "too many things don't add up".
As at 30 June 2023, 2,626,418 adult female sheep were registered in Sardinia. «If we remove the 15% that do not produce and do not give birth - we calculate 400,000 sheep - we have 2,226,418 sheep in production. The milk produced from 1 October 2022 to 31 July 2023 is approximately 255 million litres. If we divide them by the number of sheep registered, and remove the 400,000 that do not produce, and calculate 8 months of production», reflects Piana, «we have that each sheep produces only 115 liters a year. And if we divide by 8 months, a sheep produces 14.5 liters per month, which gives a yield of less than half a liter per day per sheep».
The question is launched on social media, through the official page of the Study Center: «I would like to open a serene and constructive debate among all of us and try to understand what is happening in Sardinia, also because in November the table on the CAP will be convened at the ministry on the results of the 2023 question, table to which I am a member».
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
