With a discount of up to 15%, National Administration of Power Plants and Electrical Transmissions (UTE) launched this benefit for dairy producers and others who use irrigation for productive purposes in the harvest
The benefit will take place between the period of October last year until March of this year. Meanwhile, the reduction will be up to 15% on the bill of the total expense for energy consumption, fixed charge and hired potency.
The beneficiaries They will be all those producers who use the electricity supply for productive purposes through irrigation. For this, the permission of irrigation must be current.
The discount will be applied automatically for all those producers who are registered. Meanwhile, for those who are not registered, they must send an email to the Natural Resources Directorate of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP) to the following mailbox: [email protected]
Special attention to the dairy industry
Taking into account the difficult year that the dairy industry went through, since UTE reported that commercial benefits were approved milkmen, companies or productive units of the dairy industry between October and December of last year. The beneficiaries will have to have a contracted power equal to or less than 15 kilowatts, where they will receive a discount 80% of what was consumed in electric power for the first dairy farms of 500 kilowatts per month.
Meanwhile, the dairy farmers that are not within the parameters for this benefit, will have a 15% discount on the charge for energy. On the other hand, companies or industrial units in the dairy sector will also receive the same benefit.
In Uruguay, almost 65 dairy farms close per year
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 to 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.
Lazy He commented that in 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
