Deputy Minister of Agriculture Thammanat Phromphao rushes to fix raw milk price problem and to reduce animal feed costs in Thailand

Capt. Thammanat Phromphao, Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives He later chaired a meeting to discuss with dairy farmers. Along with Mr. Chaiya Phromma, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Prayun Insakul, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and those involved Participate that the purpose of this discussion meeting To listen to problems and find solutions together with dairy farmers. The demands of dairy farmers are as follows: 1. The price of buying and selling raw milk is stable. By requesting to increase the median price for purchasing cow milk in front of the dairy product processing factory from 20.50 baht per kilogram to 22.75 baht per kilogram, or an increase of 2.25 baht per kilogram. 2. Reduce animal feed costs and 3. Reduce the cost burden of purchasing raw milk for dairy farmers' cooperatives. In this regard, we would like to assign the Deputy Minister of Agriculture to urgently find ways to relieve the suffering of dairy farmers. Mr. Chaiya said Has ...