Portugal: Animal food industries ask the government for help over strike in Spain

Published 2022년 3월 22일

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The Portuguese Association of Animal Compound Food Industry (IACA) is urging the Portuguese government to intervene in a strike by Spanish carriers, which is disrupting supplies of essential animal feed materials such as meat meal, poultry meal, fat, maize, and barley. IACA's secretary general, Jaime Piçarra, has called for urgent action, including European Union intervention to contain cost increases and prioritization of food sovereignty and the use of cereals for animal and human food rather than biofuels. The association also recommends increasing storage capacity, supporting the food sector, and easing imports of genetically modified cereals from non-EU countries.

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The Portuguese Association of Animal Compound Food Industry (IACA) calls for the Portuguese Government to intervene with the Spanish executive in order to solve the problems posed by a strike by carriers in that country. “We are faced with a strike by the Spaniards, in which tempers are very high, and these stoppages are causing fears on the part of transporters from Portugal to enter Spain, because they may suffer this type of retaliation. The Spaniards are not wanting, for the same reason, to come to Portugal and are jeopardizing the contracts and regular supplies to our sector,” said the organization’s secretary general, Jaime Piçarra, to Lusa. “Right now, what is most impacted is "pet food" (pet food). We are talking about meat meal, poultry meal and fat”, he explained, stressing that “supplies of maize and barley, which companies have been arranging to face the absence of maize from Ukraine” are already being called into question. , as well as other materials. “We have ...

Source: AgroNegocios