The EHNE union denounces that the increase in production costs and the low prices paid by the industry have led dairy farmers to economic bankruptcy.
Dairy farmers have reported that they are in “economic bankruptcy” due to the increase in production costs, as explained by the EHNE union.
In a statement, EHNE stressed that “the increase in production costs between 5 and 7 cents / liter, places the average cost of a liter of milk above 40 cents “, which added to the”low prices paid by the industry -35.3 cents / liter on average in October, according to the latest data published by the Ministry of Agriculture, strangle the ranchers and put them in economic bankruptcy “.
Faced with this situation, they pose “ex officio inspections before the industry and the distribution by the AICA “; an” agile processing of the complaints and publication of the sanctions imposed on the companies “; the” update of the study of the milk value chain with maximum involvement of the Autonomous Communities in said process “and” facilitation of price negotiations between farmers and industry through the new figure of the mediator contemplated in the Chain Law to guarantee its fulfillment. “
They have also demanded from large distribution “compliance with the Law and, consequently, the guarantee on the shelves of sales prices to the public that allow covering the costs of the chain in each of its links.”
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