Midagri will start a dialogue with the dairy industry to improve prices for farmers

The Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri) announced that it will begin talks with companies in the dairy sector with the intention of proposing solutions and meeting the demands of the hundreds of dairy farmers in the country.

Given the concern of dairy farmers about the low price of their products, the minister Oscar Zea commented that you cannot pay S/ 1 for a liter of milk “when a liter of water costs S/ 2.50. That is why we need to talk (with the dairy industry) and sit down to propose solutions so that farmers are served.”

“The difficult situation of dairy farmers is leading them to send their cows to slaughterhouses. For this reason, we need to attend to small farmers, we need to produce milk, we have potential and we must guarantee the food security of our population”, stressed the head of Midagri before the press.

The statements of Zea they occur at the gates of a national strike called for March 15.

Precisely a week ago, the official admitted the existence of a dairy monopoly, for which he assured that the same price should be paid for domestic fresh milk as for imported dairy.

“Here we have a monopoly that imports milk from other countries at S/ 2 a liter when national producers are paid half for fresh milk; at least, they (the industry) should collect the milk within Peru with the same price that they import,” said the official on the radio program Surco norteño in Chiclayo.

water background

Minister Zea also announced a package of regulations in favor of agriculture. One of them involves the creation of the Water Fund, which will allow the collection of around S/ 1,000 million in one year.

In his presentation, he said that one of the objectives of the current administration is to guarantee the provision of water, and “we are going to issue a package of decrees, one of them is (allocating) 1% of all payments (for water) have to go to a water backgroundwhich in a year can raise up to S / 1,000 million, “he said.

In addition, Minister Zea stressed that small producers must work to maintain water resources in the highlands, the construction of qochas (reservoirs), and the repair of old irrigation canals “that are about to collapse. We must guarantee the water resource in a responsible manner”.

guano from the islands

At the launch ceremony of the 2022 guano campaign, Zea reported that the ministry, through the Agro Rural program, has made guano from the islands available to farmers to meet the requirements of the crop planting stage this month. of March.

“Last year a production of 25,000 tons of guano from the islands was obtained, but the goal is to achieve more than 102,000 tons to meet the requests of small producers, and we, from the Agriculture sector, will make the greatest efforts to fulfill it”, pointed out.