The president of the National Milk Institute, Juan Daniel Vago, assured that this is due to a lack of generational change and problems of scale.
He president of the National Milk Institute (Inale), Juan Daniel Vagoconfirmed that in the Uruguay They close almost 65 drums per year due to the lack of generational turnover and the scale problems that national dairy farmers must face.
In dialogue with radio Carve, the dairy manager explained that about 64 dairy farms must close their doors on average the annual average, since in the last 3 years they closed about 192 more than the number of openings. On the other hand, he pointed out that some 2,068 dairy farms are currently active, according to the records of the Dairy Guarantee Fund (Fogale).
“There are producers who close and there are producers who opened, that is, the net account is 64 producers per year,” he said. “There are dairy farmers who reach 60 or so years of age and have no one to follow them, and the only option they have is to close,” she said in reference to the problem of generational change.
Likewise, he maintained that “there are problems of scale” in family dairy farms with between 40 and 50 cows, which “don’t see the idea that there is a way to associate with neighbors, between two, between three, to improve the scale and distribute the tasks and be more efficient.
“There are 1,000 dairy farms that are working on colonization lands, which means that the contribution of the (National Institute of) Colonization in terms of technology, in credits and in giving them opportunities so that they can function and be profitable.
“The data is lapidary and it worries us”
Lazy He commented that at Inale they are aware that there are dairy farms that will continue to close in the coming years, since “it is natural”, but that the important thing is that more of them open or reopen than these.
“The data is lapidary and is one of the concerns we have.” To reverse the situation, Lazy believes that it is essential “to have a long-term vision, a 15-year guide with clear objectives and a chain vision”, especially focused on the primary sector and dairy industrywhich “has inefficiency problems in the cheese sector due to lack of investment.”
Source: Ambito
