Dairy: 60% of production in Bolivia affected by blockage

Page Seven / La Paz The Departmental Federation of Milk Producers of Santa Cruz (Fedeple) asked the soy sector to lift the road blockades, since the pressure measure harms 60% of the milk production that cannot reach the city . "We demand that the sectors that have radicalized the blockade on the Friendship Bridge, harming 60% of the milk production agglutinated in Fedeple, lift the extreme measure", states Fedeple. They point out that the Sara and Ichilo provinces do not belong to a traditional soybean area, which is why it is striking that the blockades are aimed at milk producers. ýWe are facing a crisis situation caused by the intransigence of the demands of the soy sector, which has not had the capacity to dialogue technically with the oilseed industrial sector and the government authorities. The blockade hurts the economy in general and especially the dairy producer, who has to milk and transport milk daily, they say. Fedeple demands that the Government be able to guarantee ...