COAG requires an 'urgent and concrete support plan' for the producers of goat's milk

The Coordinator of organizations of farmers and cattlemen (Coag) requires the Ministry of environment, Rural and marine (Marm) a "plan of urgent and concrete support" to producers of goat's milk. The agrarian organization appreciates the Plan of action for the milk of goat, medium to long term, presented by the Marm but priority the implementation is of urgent measures to prevent the dismantling of the goat sector, as referred to the ministerial responsibility, during the meeting of last week. From Coag, create necessary actions as putting up mechanisms for regulating the markets with which formalize fair and stable contractual relations between large dairies and the producers, by strengthening the role of the interprofessional and to promote the approval of contracts type which may negotiate the prices of milkin order to cover the costs of production. Equally, the promotion of the transformation of the goat's milk, creating the regulatory framework for the production of cheese on the farm, as a complement of income for farmers and also as a means of recovering the heritage cheesemaking in each of the producing areas is believed necessary. Also, do necessary campaigns of promotion of milk goat and manufactured products with the same, so com identification on the labelling of the quantity of each type of milk, cheeses mix.

Over the last year, producers have received 35% less, passing of 0.60 euros per liter in April of 2009, to the 0.40 receiving today. Industries is they hide in the so-called surplus before the withdrawal of French industrialists collection routes, although there are no official data so involved. COAG will urge the Marm and industries in the bilateral meeting today, put on the table data on the actual situation of the market to see if there is indeed that excess production or is an excuse to push down the prices of milk in the field. More than 20,000 farms are on the threshold of profitability. The price crisis, joins the increase in production costs and millions of dollars investments that have taken the producers to modernise their farms.