Farmers denounce 'abuse of power' distribution before the employer dairy
May 5, 2010
Organizations (Asaja, Coag , or Upa) agricultural and agro-food cooperatives will meet representatives of the National Federation of Industrias Lácteas (phenyl) tomorrow, may 6. The meeting will take place after the concentration that these entities were undertaken to denounce "the abuse of power" of the industry and the distribution on the production sector on the eve of the shopping centre Carrefour of Cuatro Caminos, Madrid. As a result, milk producers shall require the processing industry to fulfil its commitments in Spain, as it already does in France. Thus Roman Santalla, responsible for livestock of Upa and President of the interprofessional Láctea (Inlac) has been confirmed. In view of the farmers, these industries Act "with impunity" in the country, to trivialise the milk and use it as a product claim to base to price below cost, to attract customers to their linear. In the same way, and after these two acts, the spokespersons of the agricultural sector might be entered a third round, this time with the Minister of environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, Elena Espinosa. Coinciding with the discomfort expressed by farmers about the current situation, the agricultural producers are vindicate to the groups of the PSOE and PNV, as they did at the end of April with the Popular parliamentary group.