Dairy producers in Portugal want milk price indexed to production costs

Since the beginning of 2021, Portuguese milk producers have suffered successive increases in the costs of feeding dairy cows, without the corresponding increase in the price of milk paid to the producer. After successive alerts from APROLEP, the Ministry of Agriculture announced on July 6, 2021 that it would present a “proposal for the creation” of a subcommittee at PARCA-Platform for Monitoring Relationships in the Agro-Food Chain, for “monitoring and analysis of the milk sector”. and dairy products”. On September 3, the “creation of a specific subcommittee for the milk and dairy products sector was announced, with the objective of drawing up intervention proposals that solve the crisis and the problems that currently affect producers”. A year after we launched the first alerts, the promised report was finally released on January 21, 2022 and confirmed what we had denounced: that the price of milk in Portugal was 5 cents/liter below the EU average in 2021, which there was a 90% ...