To approve and announce the market regulation of the price of milk and dairy products

According to Fars news agency, citing the public relations of the Association of Dairy Products Industries, the secretary of the association announced in a letter to the dairy companies: the implementation of changes in the rate of raw milk and the price of dairy products is subject to the approval and notification of the country’s market regulation working group, and the companies until the notification of the approval The market regulation working group should avoid any price changes.

The text of Reza Bakri’s letter states:

According to the resolution of the “Council for pricing and adoption of support policies for basic agricultural products” number 020.20270. The guaranteed purchase price of raw milk has been announced on May 20, 1402.

Changes in the price of raw milk and the price of dairy products are subject to the approval and notification of the country’s market regulation working group. Otherwise, the regulatory agencies will deal with the companies; Therefore, it is requested to avoid any price changes until the resolution of the market regulation working group is notified by obtaining the favorable opinion of the livestock farms of the contracting parties.

In the past days, the Council for Pricing and Adoption of Support Policies for Basic Agricultural Products announced the purchase price of each kilo of raw milk with specifications of 3.2% fat, 3% protein and microbial load below 100,000, 15,000 Tomans.

This price announcement comes while dairy industry activists say that the price announced by the pricing council is for the guaranteed purchase of raw milk, and according to the law, it creates an obligation for the rural cooperative organization to buy raw milk from the farmer at the mentioned price. They believe that setting the price of 15,000 Tomans per kilo for raw milk is applicable for companies when the market regulation headquarters and the support organization have issued a resolution to modify the price of dairy products based on the price of 15,000 Tomans.