A meeting of the Council for the Dairy Industry, focusing on a model for determining the purchase price of milk, adjourned for the second time on Thursday so that the leaders of the HSUPM national federation of dairy farmers' associations could take a position on the dairy companies' proposal that the purchase price be HRK 2.44 per litre.
HSUPM president Igor Resetar told reporters the federation could not agree to the proposal.
He said dairy farmers' representatives were expected to meet with President Ivo Josipovic on Friday to brief him about their problems and discuss possible solutions, primarily the issue of HRK 0.42 which dairy farmers received from the state until now and without which, he said, they could not survive.
The meeting of the Council for the Dairy Industry, which started around 11am on Wednesday and was adjourned late on Wednesday evening, resumed this afternoon, adjourning after three hours so that dairy companies could take a position on the dairy farmers' proposal that the purchase price be HRK 2.48 per litre.
Dairy farmers began protesting on Tuesday last week disgruntled with the purchase price of HRK 2.30 per litre offered by the Dukat dairy company, a cut of about HRK 0.40. Since then, they have been protesting in front of Dukat in Zagreb and its subsidiary Sirela in Bjelovar. The protest has spread to about 30 locations around the country.
