Korea Dairy and Beef Association strongly urges additional allocation of dairy budget next year

As dairy farmers have suffered serious damage due to heavy snowfall concentrated in the metropolitan area last month, rising production costs, and increased imports of dairy products due to the Free Trade Agreement (FTA), voices are growing louder for an increase in next year’s budget. On the 12th, the Korea Dairy and Beef Cattle Association (Chairman Lee Seung-ho, hereinafter referred to as the Dairy Cattle Association) issued a statement, strongly urging additional budget allocation, stating that the budget bill passed at the National Assembly plenary session, including the “Domestic Dairy Product Competitiveness Enhancement Support Project” and the “Cow Genome Analysis Project,” ultimately failed. In addition, they demanded a support plan while insisting on the prompt declaration of special disaster zones for areas damaged by heavy snowfall. The Dairy Cattle Association strongly protested that the budget increase bill for the Domestic Dairy Product Competitiveness Enhancement ...