Different entities in the country came together to transform the energy matrix of milk collection centers with the aim of installing solar panels and thus lower the cost of cooling milk in order to guarantee the country’s food security and improve the profitability of producers.
According to a statement, the plan has an initial investment of 60 million pesos, of which the Special Fund for Agricultural Development (FEDA) will donate 20%, the Program to Improve the Cattle raising (Promegan) will donate 10% of the cost and the withmilk will finance the rest.
The plan will be done in coordination, in addition, with the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM), the National Association of Milk Producers (take advantage), the Superintendency of Electricity, the National Energy Commission and the General Directorate of Cattle raising.
The document explains that the National Energy Commission will provide the funds to install three milk collection centers, while the Ministry of Energy and Mines, as the governing body, will contribute with training, technical assistance and political support for the project. Finally, the Superintendence of Electricity will advise producers in order to guarantee better prices in the market and will also receive technical assistance from it.
The director of FEDAHecmilio Galván, reported that the plan will be co-financed by the National Council for the Regulation of the Dairy Industry (withmilk) and that the pilot plan will begin with 30 collection centers and that in the future it will impact some 15,000 ranchers of 100 collection centers that will be the general plan.
The official assured that the amount of the plan in general will amount to approximately 170 million pesos.
“With the implementation of this plan for the transformation of the energy matrix of the dairy subsector, the participating institutions contribute to the food and energy security of the country and to environmental sustainability, which is part of the policy of change promised and executed by the government. of President Luis Abinader,” said Galván.
For his part, Miguel Laureano, executive director of the withmilkmaintained that the interest rate will be 6% per year withmilkand 24% of the cost of the non-refundable financing for the FEDA and the other organizations participating in the pilot plan.
Director withmilk He said that the plan will help reduce production costs and increase the profitability of the company. cattle raising and it will be a permanent source of employment in rural areas of the country.
Efraín Toribio, president of the committee of the FEDA; the CEO of Cattle raising, Geovanny Molina; Víctor Kelvin Martínez, in charge of special projects of the National Energy Commission; Blanco Peralta, president of Fedegano; Apolinar Suero, president of Fegacibao; Eduard Batista, director of protecom and Pelegrín Castillo, former Minister of Energy and Mines.
