Producers call for surcharge on milk from Argentina and Uruguay

According to Conseleite/RS, the sector has reached the limit of its capacity to absorb losses without government support. The entity argues that emergency measures are indispensable to ensure the survival of national milk production, preserve jobs in the countryside, and prepare the sector to compete more fairly in a globalized market. The initiative, disclosed by Conseleite/RS, formalized three urgent requests to the federal government in a document addressed to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, and ministers from the areas of agriculture, agrarian development, and institutional relations. The first proposal provides for fiscal incentives to industries that prioritize the purchase of national powdered milk, seeking to balance the competition with the imported product, which is currently more attractive to supermarkets and manufacturers of industrialized foods. Another request is for the public purchase of at least 100 thousand tons of Brazilian ...