August 22, 2015, 8:53 Madrid, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) Spanish government announced today the delivery of 300 euros per cow to milk producers estimated they sell product below the level of profitability due to falling prices.
The Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Isabel Garcia, said in an interview with Cadena Cope, who will do everything legally possible to alleviate the situation affecting two thousand five hundred to three thousand farmers, according to estimates.
Garcia He also announced that a one-year moratorium for loans granted by the ministry to farmers is studied.
The producers asked for the revision of prices, which are currently set to 22-23 cents per liter and ensure that in France, 34 cents are guaranteed per liter.
Garcia, who denied that the French government has raised purchase prices to farmers, he clarified that neither Spain nor France can make decisions contrary to the competition rules European.
In an interview with Radio is on the 20th, said that an imbalance between supply and demand for milk worldwide live, causing low prices.
According to the minister, also in Spain there are more than 25 percent difference between what farmers receive in different regions, depending on the degree of organization.
Where the industry is less organized, more vulnerable and these were we meet, he said.
At the same time he expressed hope that it can reach agreements and start a new phase with the European dairy sector during a meeting with the sector, . after the extraordinary Council of Ministers of Agriculture of the European Union next September 7
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