Portugal increasingly far from Europe
The lowest paid in Europe, increasingly longer than the European average and most isolated in last place. This, says Aprolep, is how milk producers are in Portugal. In June, it received 38.2 cents per litre. European colleagues, on average, more 11.2 cents.
In September, there will be a general increase of three C’s. A sequence of eight Pingo Doce hypermarkets, owned by the giant Jerónimo Martins, already an “extra” hypermarket update, raising the price paid to its producers to more than 50 cents. The Portuguese Milk Producers Association, as well as dairy self-supply and food sovereignty, challenges all buyers to do the same and points to the bad example of expensive gasoline, with the crisis in place, “milk than Gasoline “.
“Expect the opening of the Ukrainian cereal market and feed prices, but perhaps because of the drought across Europe, the United States, Canada and China, yields will be lower and as various raw materials used in feed remain with high prices”, says in a statement Aprolep. The situation is so serious that, in France, for example, there used to be a significant reduction in production, the surplus of which was sold to Spain at a bargain price.
In June, according to data from the European Commission, Portugal reached the usual price paid to the producer compared to the European average (11.2 cents), being 2.2 cents from the penultimate highest on the list of the worst paid to production – Hungary .
July has already brought an increase of two cents and September will increase again, this time by three cents. Still, says Aprolep, it’s not enough.
“The update of the price price in Portugal, in recent years, has always come late, below production costs, below the European market and always in reaction to the price increase of other buyers or the search for buyers”, emphasizes the association cases. , recalling the brutal rise in production factors and the loss of forage in food production, caused by the drought that, in some products, corn, dropped production by 50%. The result, he says, is discouragement in the sector, the closing of vacations and the increase in animals for slaughter.
Aprole milk says that the price of the license “to be a weapon in the war for market share between supermarkets and market conditions”, which “crushes producers” and several “puts in question a war on dairy self-supply and food sovereignty ” from the country.
“At a time when we must not allow an essential food such as milk to be completely missing from the shelves or to be replaced by imported milk at affordable prices, as is currently the case in Brazil where consumers are paying more for milk than gasoline, defying all”, the buyers patched to “immediately raise the price of milk to the producer to reach an average value of 50 liters”.