Conaprole and Prolesa announced to the dairy unions a re-liquidation of profits that will reach US$ 9 millionwhereby they undertook to give an increase in the price of milk to the producer for remission from February 1reported to The Observer Leandro Galarraga, president of the National Association of Milk Producers (ANPL).
A final figure for the increase has not yet been confirmed, but the union saw the announcement “as a good sign”Said the director of one of the unions that bring together dairy farmers.
This Tuesday, at the headquarters of the ANPL, the meeting was attended by directors of the cooperative and representatives of the ANPL and the Canelones Dairy Farmers Association, the Florida Milk Producers Society, the Rodríguez Milk Producers Society, the San Ramón Milk Producers and La Casilla Rural Development Association.
The Producers raised their concern about the increase in production costs and they expressed that the price they were receiving for the milk “was very low to face such a large increase” in the payments they had to face.
In that framework, the board of directors announced the liquidation “as a sign of support, and the commitment that the producer price, due to sales, will improve in February”Galarraga said.
The expectations of an improvement in the value due to the shipment of milk from the dairy farms grew in January, after the second auction of dairy products on the Global Dairy Trade platform, where there were new increases that were added to those of the beginning of the month, in a scenario where firmness is the characteristic. Both the general average for all products and the value of whole milk powder (which Uruguay exports the most) were above US$ 4,000 per ton.
Contributions from Conaprole and Prolesa
The reliquidation of Prolesa it had been, until now, US$ 3 million, he commented, and now it has doubled and it will be for US$ 6 million.
He explained that For the payment, all the purchases that the dairy farmers made from January to December 2021 will be taken into account..
For its part, Conaprole will contribute US$ 3 million based on the liters sent in October, November and December 2021he complemented.
“The commitment of the board was that the prospects for the future are good, in January the price will be maintained and in February the basics will be corrected,” he commented.
