Spain: Dairy industry criticizes chains for using milk to attract consumers
Dairy
Spain
Published Nov 30, 2022
Tridge summary
The sector warns that it has been suffering a "significant reduction in its margins" for a long time that can lead to the closure of SMEs and loss of industrial fabric in rural Spain.
Original content
The general director of the National Federation of Dairy Industries (FeNIL), Luis Calabozo, has attacked certain distribution chains for using milk "as a product to attract consumers" and has also asked to protect the processing industry, in the same way that the rest of the links are protected, as stated in the Food Chain Law. Likewise, in his assessment of how 2022 is developing for this Spanish industry, he has described the year as "complicated", "marked by uncertainty and the inflationary spiral of production costs", which are cutting the margins of the industries, that they have not transferred to the distribution the increase in the price of milk at origin (price paid by the industry to the farmer), and in their own production costs. The general director of FeNIL has indicated that the dairy industry is suffering especially from the rise in the price of gas and electricity, since it is an intensive sector in energy consumption. In addition, the rise in the cost of raw ...
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