The Livestock Production in Norway

A problem of the Norwegian agricultural policy, a description of the current types of subsidies for livestock farming, financial situation of this holdings and ongoing changes in a livestock production in the years 2000 – 2015 is presented in this paper. The main aim of the publication is to characterize these changes in the considered period. There is not too many publications about the Norwegian agriculture and livestock production. The data from Statistiska Sentralbyrå (Statistics Norway) were used in the analysis. The results indicate the slight changes in the livestock production in Norwegian agriculture i.e. the slight decrease of number of holdings with livestock and generally the slight decrease of population of livestock.