The milk remission to Conaprole managed to increase during the month of February by 5% when compared to the same month of the previous year, while the sector’s production managed to grow during January of this year according to preliminaries published by the National Milk Institute (INALE).
Conaprole perceived a remission during the last 24 days of February of 3.1 million liters per day and managed to exceed the volume registered during the same period in the previous year by 5%. It must be taken into account that during February 2023 the sector was deeply affected by the weather conditions of the Uruguay in the midst of a historic drought.
For its part, according to data from Conexión Agropecuaria, the last twelve rolling months showed an increase of 1.4% to Conaprole. Regarding the price remission in January, the vice president of Conaprole, Alejandro Pérez Viazziannounced the application of an increase from 7% to 14% in the seasonal bonus.
Good production for the sector
During the month of January, the remission of milk industrial plants managed to grow 3% compared to the same period last year – a time that was crossed by a dry important -, showing figures record.
In this sense, the data show that last month a total of 163.3 million liters were produced, achieving an increase of 1.5% compared to the record for January 2018.
Bad news for exports
The dairy exports decreased by 7% year-on-year during January, compared to the same month last year, mainly as a result of the drop in billing from loan placements. milk powder whole and skimmedas well as butter.
He National Milk Institute (Inale)published the report of exports of dairy products corresponding to the month of January, which explains that the decrease in turnover is strictly related to the decrease in prices.
In total, in January of 82.3 million dollars per FOB exports —free on board—, totaling a drop of 7%. In the breakdown, whole milk powder meant a foreign exchange income of 53 million dollars despite a 7% drop; skimmed milk powder fell 3%, implying 4.5 million dollars; by butter 5.9 million dollars entered after an abrupt collapse of up to 34%; Meanwhile he cheese It was the only product for which more was invoiced, about 12.5 million dollars after climbing 18% year-on-year.
On a year-on-year basis, the price of whole milk powder grew 1% to $3,333 per ton; that of skimmed milk powder fell 6% to $2,963 per ton; that of cheeses increased by 1% to $4,943 per ton; while that of butter had an increase of 5% to 4,803 dollars per ton.
Source: Ambito
