The businessmen, tamberos and industrialists of the milk in general, they urgently requested a meeting with the government. In this sense, they asked for a salary recomposition to avoid the closure of establishments that could become shortages next fall.
companies and tamberos that produce the milk They explained that their sector is in a critical situation due, in part, to the third consecutive year of severe droughts and late frosts. They also warned that the Russo-Ukrainian war raised the price of grains, therefore, the production costs of their activity. The oilseed price per ton reached 100 thousand pesos.
The Association of Small and Medium Dairy Companies (APYMEL), expressed the following through a statement: “we request an urgent call from the entire dairy chain on behalf of the Government, to directly raise before the authorities all the variables that put productive and industrial activity at risk and jointly seek possible solutions”. The entrepreneurs of the milk They ended the note with: “We look forward to a prompt response to our request.”
In order to face the perceived problems, APYMEL pronounced that “dairy SMEs are inevitably going to have to transfer these cost increases. They far exceed the 4% claimed by the Government (through the implementation of the Fair Prices program) for gondolas”.
Among the measures requested by the dairy and dairy businessmen of our country, are that a “weekly or fortnightly settlement and payment system” be carried out and to promote the use of the invoice for the dairy transaction. At the same time, They expressed that the urgent need decrees (DNU) 579/2022 and 787/2022 have a negative impact on the dairy business because they do not distinguish between company sizes, that is, it applies equally to SMEs and large companies. .
The first meeting request
At the beginning of December, the country’s dairy farmers had already requested an emergency meeting with the Government, specifically with the Secretary of Agriculture, Juan José Bahillo, to discuss the problems that affect them especially since the second half of 2021.
In that first petition, the dairy farmers explained that the wages of dairy farmers increased below inflation. The executive director of the Observatory of the Argentine Dairy Chain (OCLA), Jorge Giraudo, said that the situation of dairy entrepreneurs could not be worse.
In the words of Giraudo, “today the sector is producing in the worst of evils. It is affected by a combo made up of a terrible drought that caused the existing forage reserves to be consumed. Likewise, due to the lack of water, new reserves cannot be made, there is no grass because it does not rain”.
