Spain: Demonstration by the union of Farmers and Ranchers against milk prices in Madrid by Alberto Sibaja
The union of Unions of Farmers and Ranchers, together with the organizations OPL del Sur, OPL Nacional and Platform Stop Abuses of Talavera and Comarca "AGATA", have demonstrated before the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to denounce their lack of measures to the critical situation dragging dairy farming and its prices. In total, 20 tractors and 150 people have left Talavera de la Reina and its region for Madrid.
In 2021, a controversy began over the production costs of the dairy sector, since they did not stop increasing and were suffocating farmers.
Since then, the sector has not stopped taking to the streets to demand their rights and that the prices paid affect the cost of production.
The protests, which have been taking place throughout the entire territory and have lasted from the middle to the end of 2021, have shown that this is a problem at the state level and that the demands are still far from being satisfied, despite to the latest aid granted by the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha.
Thus, Union of Unions has criticized in a statement that, in this period of more than six months of crisis and protests, the MAPA has avoided dealing directly with this matter. That is why they demand compliance with the food chain law from all the links in the food chain.
Value and that the Ministry forcefully apply current regulations to enforce it.
The farmers claim official production costs for the dairy sector that serve as a starting point for the negotiatio
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