Producers celebrate high milk price and import tax increase

News of the increase in import tax of foreign milk, this week gave a relief to producers, which were a little more excited about the high prices in January. On the property of Lélis da Silva, in silver, in the Triângulo Mineiro, the production is 650 liters of milk per day. Are 35 cows in the milking. For him, it wasn't an easy year 2018. "The profit margin was too small, it was very difficult, the milk had a very big fall. The inputs had no fall, were not affordable, so everything was very difficult, "he says. The milk that it stores in the tank will three times a week for the cooperative of the city. At the hardest time, Lélis received only R $1.06 per litre. Very different situation now. This month, he sold milk to R $1.38. This difference means some R $6000 in the month. "And we're hoping to expand a little more, to be more viable milk production." Gelder de Moura, interim President of the cooperative, explains that the fall in imports in December allowed a market reaction. "Enabled we Charter the best price in the sale of our product." The national average, the litre was sold to R $1.28, in January. In Minas, was in R $1.28, R $0.25 more than in the same month of last year. The State is the largest producer of milk in the country and it is a great offer that made the prices plummet in 2018. "I believe that if that price return to the heights of R $1.50, R $1.65, R $1.70, we one goes back to what the producer had already acquired as standard price", says the livestock Adviser Marco Aurélio Nunes. Thiago Fonseca produces 10000 liters of milk per day in Uberlândia, in the Triângulo Mineiro. He says that, with better prices, it becomes easier to plan. "This means a result, investment, job creation. That's all you need, "says producer. In January, the average price of milk in Brazil rose 4% compared to December. In a year, the increase was of 30%.