Coinciding with the last Council of Ministers of Agriculture of the EU, the Coordinator of organizations of farmers and cattlemen (Coag) has assured that the solutions to the milk crisis do not pass by "monetary patches" but by "political decisions that don't cost money and to ensure profitable prices for farmers". Statements by the entity emerge after the proposal for supplementary aid of 280 million euros for the dairy sector by the Agriculture Commissioner, Mariann Fischer. The proposal released by Fischer should be adopted by the Finance Ministers of the 27 at the Council on 19 November. Criteria for sharing that arouses attention include production, which would damage - in the opinion of Coag - Spanish farmers, whose assigned fee is 6 million tonnes. In other words, 4.2% of milk production in Europe with a total of 140 million tonnes. "If so, the Spanish State would receive about 450 euros per farmer, the cost of a day of food on a medium farm (80 cows)", has criticized responsible for milk production of the Executive Committee of Coag and head of the delegation of producers dairy of GaliciaAsturias, Castile and León, Cantabria and Basque country in Luxembourg, Charo Arredondo. "Is not a problem of AIDS, but market, with prices sunk below the costs that make it untenable the situation in the field", he has tempered.
Accordingly, Coag has demanded a public control of the supply and adjustment of production to consumption to ensure decent prices in the field to at least cover the costs of production. According to the Agrarian State, is therefore essential maintenance of the system of production quotas more beyond the year 2015 and any mechanism of regulation of the market. In addition, the agrarian organization has claimed the right to collective bargaining in the prices of milk between the legitimate representatives of the farmers and the industry. COAG has also called for a new dairy policy reform of the CAP, scheduled for the year 2013, where part of the World Trade Organization (WTO) be changed by the food sovereignty and thus to meet the challenges of the current systemic crisis.
