Dairy producers will stop supply starting next week if prices do not rise 24%

"It is not going to move a single liter of milk throughout Spain." Dairy farmers have said enough. Neither the numerous protest concentrations in the last month - even in Galicia to remove the milk cartons of the brands of the main industries from the supermarket shelves - nor the meetings with the Ministry of Agriculture as a mediator with the industry and the Distribution have been able to alter the prices they receive for their production, already lower (

) than even water.

Meeting in Valencia de Don Juan (León), farmers from the main milk-producing territories in Spain have decided that if the dairy industries do not pay them

(€ 0.41, that is, 24% more than in the actuality) before next December 15 they will go to the "indefinite" national strike of deliveries, as announced by the United Dairy Farmers Platform.

"Production costs continue to rise without stopping, especially feed," complains to EL MUNDO

, president of the Agromuralla association, which brings together more than 400 farmers from Lugo and La Coruña.

This farmer recalls that for the consumer, milk has risen by up to six cents per liter in recent times, "but that increase does not reach us."

As a consequence, the strike announcement "is the toughest measure that a farmer can adopt but, at the same time, it is

," reads the statement from said group , which clarifies: "The milk is ours and the only ones who get rich with it are those who buy it from us."

Regarding the stoppage of deliveries, the milk producers emphasize that the strike "will be indefinite in time,

; we do not want to harm the transporters, who know that they are going through so much bad like us, because the industry has them asphyxiated in prices, but we cannot let a single liter of milk move in Spain in those days of strike ", they predict. Thus, they clarify that they will hold meetings for "the creation of informational pickets that will be active on the roads of our country."

The agreement was reached by farmers from

(the territories with the most production in the country) and they urged the entire group "not to sign contracts that do not cover production costs, since that is what marks it the Food Chain Law, being illegal for industries to force us to sign contracts that violate said law. " In this sense, they urge the Ministry of Agriculture and the councils of said Autonomous Communities to "mediate in this conflict" because it seems "that they are not aware of the seriousness of the situation and given the indolence and ineffectiveness that they are practicing. ".

Finally, they recall that dairy farming in Spain

, most of them working in rural areas that, if they continue like this, "will be doomed to disappearance" because "the economy of the farmers is not to wait more, being unfeasible a price that continues to suffocate us to ruin ".

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