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"The Dairy Council had an interest in lowering quantities" | Israel today

2021-10-11T13:09:15.886Z


The holidays are over, but the milk crisis in Israel continues • Former Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture criticizes the Dairy Council: "There is no problem in producing milk and storing it, they wanted to keep the budget"


The shortage of milk continues, even after the Tishrei holidays.

The Dairy Council announced before the holidays that during them are expected to be fewer working days, and therefore will not be able to produce enough milk, which will cause a shortage.

However, after a long time since the Sukkot holiday, there is still a shortage of 1% fat milk, and in some places even 3% milk.

It should be noted that there may be a shortage of 3% Tnuva milk in the carton, but it will be in the bag.

Shlomo Ben Eliyahu, former director general of the Ministry of Agriculture, has a lot of criticism of the situation.

There is no problem today in producing milk and storing it.

Milk in a carton lasts 30-22 days, it could be produced before the holidays and marketed during them. "

Ben Eliyahu adds that "it is true that there is a shortage of raw milk, since they set a small amount for the production of annual milk. "They have already passed, there is still a shortage. Once there is a surplus of milk, the Dairy Council takes the excess milk from Tnuva Vetra and tells them to dry it and turn it into milk powder. Drying the milk is less economically worthwhile than milk, and this delta is funded by the Dairy Council."

Dairy Council CEO Itzik Schneider responded to Ben Eliyahu's remarks, telling Israel Today that "this holiday show, which had so many holidays in the middle of the week, happens once every few years.

The dairies were organized ahead of time and prepared stock of products that could be stored.

Cardboard milk was not there, because according to the Ministry of Health it has up to 21 days of validity.

This is not stated by Shlomo ben Eliyahu.

We and the entire industry work according to the laws of the Ministry of Health. "

A source in the dairy industry told Israel Today: "They have really returned to production as usual and around the clock, and even beyond that, but it takes time for the industry to reduce the shortcomings that also increased because demand increased at the same time.

The Tnuva company stated: "With the departure of the holidays, we continue to produce only supervised products, as we have done in the last two months. Production in the last week is even beyond the normal demand for this period."

Lior Simcha, CEO of Dairy Producers in Israel (responsible for the dairy section): “Dairies worked on holidays 24 hours a day, and there was a surplus of tens of millions in raw milk.

"Thanks to the planned market, we were able to overcome the surplus, with the help of drying and pouring milk, which costs a lot of money."

Source: israelhayom

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