Spain: Planas lives disconnected from the reality of the dairy sector, according to UdeU
Dairy
Spain
Published Sep 6, 2022
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Union of Unions regrets that the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, has commented that "the union complaint has no basis since the prices paid to the farmer are 45 cents per liter of milk" at the opening of the SALAMAQ fair. The organization considers these statements by the minister totally disconnected from reality, and criticizes the fact that the price that farmers receive for their milk seems fair to the minister when they barely manage to cover production costs.
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In this sense, if on average in July 46 cents per liter were received, the cost to produce it is estimated at around 53-55 cents, which means that not only is it not covered, but that the farmer returns to produce at a loss. Unión de Uniones highlights that this is a clear example that the protection that the reform of the Food Chain Law should have given producers is not being such, with the complicity of the Ministry. "We pay almost double for diesel B than last year, 2.34 times more for electricity, 1.36 times more for food... it seems that they want us to keep the news that they pay us more without us seeing that what we have to pay has increased even more”, they denounce from the organization. Union of Unions points out that Planas does not seem to attend to the reports of his own Ministry when he talks about the dairy sector. These indicate that production drops have been taking place for four months, some months close to 10% in milk goats, 4% in sheep and cattle with ...
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