The Association of Dairy Farmers of Peru (Agalep) pointed out that business associations support “the position of dominance” of dairy companies like Gloria, so will continue with the national strike called for this March 15.
The words of the leader come in response to the statement of the Dairy Committee of the National Society of Industries (SNI), in which they denied that the dairy industry has any responsibility for the crisis that the sector is going through.
One of the points in the letter from the committee of the SNI justified the importation of powdered milk in the face of “the deficit in the production of national raw milk, which covers only 71% of the demand.”
“Unfortunately, the National Society of Industries defends the abuse of market dominance by the large dairy industry led by Gloria, with lies and contradictions. They say that national milk is not enough and that is why they import powdered milk (at higher prices); however, they contradict themselves by mentioning that they only collect less than the entire national production,” said Nivia Vargas, president of the Association of Dairy Farmers of Peru, AGALEP.
To this, the union indicated that other biased information was “that, as of 2007, milk production has grown at an average annual rate of 3%; however, what is not mentioned is that before that year it grew at a rate of 7% per year. It was the industrial management in 2007 with the publication of DL 1035 that allowed them to create the misnamed “evaporated milk”, a product made with powdered milk, observed by other countries and that, in addition, seriously harms dairy farming and millions of consumers.
Agalep He also rejected that the companies have supported their “livestock partners, since they declare profits for more than S/. 200 million during the worst crisis of the dairy farmingat the cost of the impoverishment of the sector”.
“The industry, acting in complicity and through the SNI, says that it is in dialogue, but they do not accept any kind of suggestions that the dairy sector really needs to overcome the crisis,” said the Agalep spokeswoman.
“The dairy farmers of Peru are desperate. Once again, the big companies are in a position of power and abuse against the country’s small producers, imposing control measures that hit our work hard,” Vargas said.
Source: Larepublica
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