Policy to stop school lunches and book about 1 billion yen for dairy farmers support March 7 6:10
The temporary closure of elementary schools and other schools has reduced the income of dairy farmers who supply milk for school lunches. We have solidified our policy of including yen.
Milk supplied to school meals accounts for about 10% of the domestic consumption, but demand has sharply declined due to the cancellation of school lunches following elementary school and other school closures requested by the government. did.
Dairy farmers are required to take measures such as turning raw milk, which is originally supplied as milk for lunch, into raw materials for butter and other dairy products. Will be reduced.
For this reason, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has decided to allocate approximately 1 billion yen to support dairy farmers in continuing production.
In addition, if we donate food that was originally intended for school lunches to a so-called food bank that provides food to welfare facilities free of charge, we will subsidize transportation costs to businesses.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will include such support in its second emergency response, which will be finalized next week.