The Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Isabel García Tejerina, announced Saturday aid of 300 euros per cow for farmers after the collapse of the Milk prices in the country.
“The Ministry will grant direct aid of 300 euros per cow for those farms that are selling milk below profitability,” he explained the text.
“The minister estimated that this aid could benefit 2,500 to 3,000 farms,” he added the text.
Thousands of producers of Galicia (west) demonstrated to demand fair prices for milk .
The farmers complain that some farms are forced to sell their milk at prices 22-23 cents per liter, and demand from the government a idéntido agreement that was reached a month ago in France, where the price guaranteed minimum is 34 cents.
The minister however said in their statements that is? absolutely false? that the French Government has set a price for milk.
“Neither France nor Spain can set prices because they prevent the Community competition rules,” he said the minister.
The price agreed in France was obtained after a negotiating table between producers industrial and dealers.
“The important thing is not to generate false expectations, not fooled, and work to promote measures that truly can materialize,” the responsible.
The minister will meet on Friday with French, Italian and Portuguese counterparts, before an extraordinary council of agriculture ministers of the European Union on September 7
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