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Muted recovery expected for dairy in the next 10 years

Despite four successive quarters of negative economic growth, dairy products have retained a distinctive place in consumers’ shopping baskets, according to the Milk Producers’ Organisation (MPO).

Bertus van Heerden, chief economist at the MPO, said

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