« Redeemers are ready for everything »: Do the dairies lower the purchase prices in response to the measures of the Ministry? – Economy

The war of dairies and milk producers around the purchase prices lasts continuously. Farmers are trying to charge their work, and the dairies buy the product more cheaper.

However, the president of the association of cattle breeders in central Serbia Milija Palamarevic In the statement for the Beta Agency, he said that the dairies in Serbia reduced the purchase price of milk and up to 16 dinars per liter.

He warned that therefore, the small and medium farms would begin to fail.

His colleague, a member of the Association « Our milk » Dejan Trajković. He stated that manufacturers would ask the state to compensate because the milkers reduced the purchase prices of milk, 10 to 16 dinars per liter.

« Daily I am selling a dairy three tons of milk and I can barely survive at the loss, and minister glamocic is possible, but when the state regulates the market. We cannot survive, » said Trajković for Beta.

He also warned that information on the import of milk and dairy products are kept secret.

Remind, the Minister of Agriculture of Forestry and Water Management, about a month ago said that due to increased data supplies, issuance of milk imports, milk and products made of palm oil, which replace milk.

Glamocic also emphasized that the protection of domestic production of milk and dairy products « Absolute » priority.

However, a month later, milk producers threaten protests and seek meeting and urgent solution to problems. Milk producers, members of the « Our milk » association and the survival of Western Serbian livestock, announced that the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of Serbia will request the Minister of Dragan Glamočić, if not at the conversation until Friday, 30. May.

According to the official data of the Republic Bureau of Statistics (Rzs), in 2024. year, the production of consuming cow milk in dairies increased by 13.4 percent compared to the same period last year.

The assessments show that agricultural farms engaged in the production of cow milk are distributed by purchase cells, ie dairies about 59 percent of total production.

The purchase price in December last year was 55.3 dinars, while the consumer price amounted to 144.2 dinars.

The President of the Association of Manch of Sumadia and Pomoravlje Predrag Veljković states that the purchase prices continue to fall.

« We are reduced for four more dinars again, some way out of this situation. The huge minister says that it has stopped, but by some information that we have had not stopped and that milk is still entering Serbia, » he claims.

Veljković warns that the problem is now caused by not only in small, but even in large dairies.

« Now everyone is linearly lowered, but stocks are huge. We had a little bit of ministries. She eventually gave the imports. The Visecus of our milk turned into milk powder and thus released surplus and After five or six months, he stabilized, « he reminded.

However, prices have never returned to old, we emphasize our interlocutor.

« It’s not only a problem, but some dairies are not redeeming milk at all, and some have laid off the state and that the state is delayed by subsidies and it is a vicious circle in which people tone and go to farms, » ​​Veljkovic points out.

He believes that the goal is for small and medium farms « completely extinguishes and that the less money they give from the budget. »

Veljkovic also criticizes the Mannis Glamocic to represent as a new man, without new.

« He was already a minister and advisor and Non-Stop in the agriculture, he participated in everything that happened in years background, » he says.

Similar to the story and president of the Makwan District of Goran Vasić, which for our newspaper states that Sabac dairy announced a price reduction in four dinars, as well as to announce complications and for the next month.

« Answers and from the state is constantly the same, and that is to have any surpluses, that it is increased by milk production, that it cannot be exported due to aphlatoxins and to reduce consumption … We have leaned away, » he says.

Vasic also adds that farmers do not know which boundaries will rain milk.

« We need to sit in a triangle – dairies, manufacturers and the ministry and to get to some solution. The state does not reach imports that will be imparted by the milk market, and the dairies are given to spend these supplies, » he says.

When you have a 10 percent drop in price, it is a serious blow to manufacturers, emphasizes our interlocutor.

« And in the markets, some milk products rose to four to eight dinars. How to break the price for raw milk here, and increase the price of consumers, » Vasic asks.

He reminds that the analysis of the milk, which was doing the Laboratory « Ana Lab », showed that a large number of dairies falsify milk products.

« They add palm oil, as well as water in milk and the like. Inserting that. We said that there was a tension about it, and eventually ended that the lab was stolen and everything left, » Vasic points out.

He believes that the insistence of the Ministry on the quality encouraged the milkway to the instead of.

« The Ministry did a good thing that consumers would know what to eat the milk and produce the mleback. If I can mix something and cheaper the production, I will reduce the price of milk, » says Vasic.

It also adds to support the operation of the milk analysis and that does not meet the criterion from the safety party and endangers consumer health, it should be turned off.

And Agroeconomic Analysts Žarko Galetin believes that there is a type of notice in the dairy.

« The buyers are ready for everything. They don’t buy milk and resell it on the market, and the more it goes to that redeemer and that is why the buyoff is to dictate the conditions on the market and to be caused by both.

Galetin states that we are persistently we can solve the problem of dairy in a quality way.

« One of the reasons is that we have quite low-quality milk, which is why processors sometimes opt for milk from imports that is a confusion and fear statements to the minister that premiums will be paid according to quality groups, » he says.

It will, according to him, be a serious problem, especially for smaller milk producers who do not have equipment and technical capabilities to produce better quality milk.

« Import is a problem, but again, we have no quality, so we need to have a reference national laboratory, and then we may be banned, not only by an administrative measure, but also to have better milk, » Galetin points out. « 

An additional problem is, as it says, what makes the sum of small manufacturers, probably more milk products than large farms. And it will, how to indicate, these small producers will be the most endangered.

« Another problem is that the milk premiums, when manufacturers get those 19 dinars per liter of milk, then redeeming the prices, that is why these premiums are in part and redeemers, » Galetin concludes.