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| Date: | Wed, 27 May 2015 15:00:27 +0200 |
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Dear Luis Manuel,
I was sorry to hear about the current situation for milk producers in your country. I know that in difficult times it is hard to think about celebrations, I would however suggest you may wish to organise some sort of event … for example a press release … which you could use to highlight the benefits of dairy farming and consuming dairy products. This may serve to raise awareness of the difficulties that the dairy sector is facing.
I wish you all the best.
Michael
Subject: Colombia: World Milk Day - things are so bad, it is not exiting for us
Dairy Outlook is a service of FAO’s Trade and Markets Division
The dairy product is one of the most important activity for farmers in Colombia specially for the small ones, in Colombia people sell even 5 litters of milk and with that 5 litters of milk/day one family can buy food.
More or less colombia has 400.000 families that depends from this product. They are 400.000 families that live in the countryside and most of those families has got problems with guerrilla and para most of them have been victims from narcotrafic, some of them were a part from narcotrafic because in those small farms people used to have cocain plants which people have been changing for milky cows.
But now the goverment dont cares about it and the massive importations of milk are breaking down all of these people.
In 2014, the import were 20.000 tons of milk powder and in 2015 the goverment expectations is to import 50.000 tons of milk powder.
The price for the farmer is getting lower, (0,05USD) But for the final consumer the price are the same.
Thats why the world milk day is not exciting for us, we are worry about the future of our production, of our families, of our country.
Luis Manuel
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