ASAJA denounces the paradox of the Spanish dairy sector, the deficit being imported a third of national consumption, it has worse prices in origin purely exporting countries.
Data published by the European Commission, corresponding June, put the average price of cow’s milk in origin 30.43 cents a liter in euros, for the whole of the European Union 7 cents less than twelve months earlier . In the case of Spain, the price drops to 29.27 cents, down from exporting countries such as France (31.20), Germany (29.83), Denmark (31,32) and the Netherlands (30.50).
ASAJA calls to agricultural, domestic and empower authorities to correct what is going wrong in the manufacturing and distribution process to our producers copen market countries where the raw material to the farmer is paid better prices of perceiving the Spanish livestock. ASAJA claims that the consequences of the lack of competitiveness of the Spanish dairy industry is paying the farmer, who will despise their devaluing and refusing to buy anything that produces or may produce product.
The legitimate aspiration of the Spanish livestock and Castile and Leon, to increase production to meet the needs of the country, estimated at about 9 million tons of dairy products per year, are dashed by a dairy industry that is unable to compete with other European countries and is able to export out inside and outside the European Union.
ASAJA Castilla y Leon, before these official data provided by Brussels, which demonstrate the weakness of the sector as a whole and that of Spain in particular, calls on the Minister of Agriculture, Isabel García Tejerina, not evade its responsibilities and check all measures implemented so far, as it was proved that they have not been effective.
The Commission report also shows the industrial situation in other parts of the world, where prices have also been declining in the last twelve months. Thus, in the market for New Zealand, the price originally stood at 23.4 cents a liter, while in the Americas (USA), but also has fallen, it remains above the 36 cents euro a liter.
Source: ASAJA Castilla and Leon
