Pressure increases on milk quotas

[NewsWhore]

Pressure from milk producers and from the milk industry is trying to adjust the assignment of the quotas for importing milk. Yesterday, the Dominican Dairy Producers Association (APROLECHE) and the National Cattle Farmers Association joined forces to urge the government to take over the import of powdered milk coming from Europe and to make the distribution of the milk "more democratic." According to Hoy, some of this milk should be handled by the cattle farmers and milk producers as a way of lowering their production costs. The two spokesmen, Erick Rivero and Arturo Biaggi, said that it was not right that one individual should control 50% of the milk imports into the Dominican Republic. They said that this permits price gouging, and forces milk processors to go through intermediaries in order to get their raw materials. According to Biaggi, if milk powder were imported in the manner suggested by APROLECHE, the cost of the final product would be substantially reduced.

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