Milk surplus ... The temporary closure of the school after school also affects the company Fukuoka March 4 4:54
The impact of temporary closure due to the spread of the new coronavirus has also spread to businesses that provide school meals.
Of these, Nagatoshi Milk in Dazaifu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, which provides milk for school lunches, has stopped producing milk for school lunch on the 2nd since many schools closed. Is working with reduced working hours.
This manufacturer supplies about 120,000 bottles of milk per day to elementary and junior high schools in Fukuoka City and Dazaifu City.
During the summer vacation period, processed products such as butter and skim milk are shipped, but it is the first time for a sudden simultaneous school closure like this time that production adjustment is difficult, and the handling of surplus milk is undecided. .
The loss due to the simultaneous closure of schools is expected to be approximately 70 million yen in the next month.
President Toshi Hasegawa of Eily Milk said, "Manufacturing for school meals will be a blow to management if production is reduced to zero in March," he said.