Spain: Castilla-La Mancha highlights that the dairy sector is now achieving the profitability that it did not have during part of 2021

TOLEDO, Feb. 4 (EUROPA PRESS) - The Minister of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development, Francisco Martínez Arroyo, stressed that the dairy sector is currently "achieving profitability" that it did not have during "an important part" of last year. Speaking to the media this Friday in Toledo after attending the first meeting of the Price Observatory of the Food Chain of Castilla-La Mancha, he explained that in this first meeting, in addition to the constitution of this observatory, a study has been analyzed prepared by the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) on production costs in the dairy sector for cattle, sheep and goats. Martínez Arroyo has explained that, in the case of beef, the average cost of production reached 0.39 euros per litre, while for sheep it was 0.9 and for sheep it was 1.3 euros per litre, amounting to 1.4 euros per liter in the case of Manchego sheep. The minister continued by commenting that, in the case of cow's milk, the prices being paid to farmers ...