No concrete agreement was reached at Wednesday's session of the Milk Council at the Agriculture Ministry, which lasted more than ten hours, so milk farmers are continuing their suspension of deliveries to manufacturers and do not rule out the possibility of blocking the borders.
Nothing the farmers suggested was accepted, said Davorin Blazic, president of the Croatian alliance of milk farmers.
"We lowered the demand for a HRK 4.05 purchase price of milk per litre to HRK 3.5, it wasn't accepted. Manufacturers are offering HRK 2.43, which is unacceptable to the farmers," he said.
Agriculture Minister Tihomir Jakovina said the dairy industry offered HRK 2.43 per litre at the meeting, HRK 0.28 more than the current price. He said this was a very correct offer and that part of the milk farmers had agreed to it and would continue to deliver milk at more favourable conditions.
As for announcements of border barricades, Jakovina said that was politicking and populism, as of the average 1.5 million litres of milk delivered daily in Croatia, 120,000 did not reach the destination on Tuesday, which he said meant that only eight per cent of the farmers were disgruntled.
He appealed on all milk farmers again to accept the funds earmarked for their sector.
