Milk purchased by other states endangers the locale

Taking protective measures from institutions would protect local milk producers as well as boost milk production capacities.

The chairman of the Kosovo Milky Association, Ramadan Memaj, has said local farmers are covering the consumer milk needs by 45 percent.

According to him, major obstacles to local milk producers have from imported milk.

<x) Although the Kosovo Parliament has passed the Anti Damping Law, it has never been applied to milk products”, Memaj said.

He has shown that 25 kinds of milk are imported to Kosovo.

It is the last time this trend of allowing uncontrollable imports to be completed. Therefore, we ask for measures: Banning fraudulent and counterfeit products, applying anti-mping and counterbalancing measures against damping and subsidy products. Quotypes in import to milk products at the time when there are milk surpluses in Kosovo. The immediate company of these measures would provide preconditions for the sustainable development of the largest sector in Kosovo's economics”, said Ramadan Memaj, chairman of the Kosovo Milkies Association.

He has said that if protective measures are taken, farmers have greater production capacities. At the moment we produce about 170,000 liters, which is about 50,000 less than in 2014”, Memaj said.

In Milky V The ITA has said they have the largest milk production capacities, as if institutions in Kosovo would take protective measures for milkmakers.

<x0) The ITA is 21,000 litres per hour, as if import were right the possibilities are great because it is currently produced with 45% of the existing” capacities, shown in milk. ITA.

According to them, taking protective measures is an urgent need to protect local farmers from import.

“Fermer is urgently in need of protection from import because non-accommunication of milk impacts the primary production sector and at the same time dims the goals of increased investments in primary production and increased production capacity of milk, even though the Ministry of Agriculture applies milk subsidies and milk cows”, it is said in response from this milk.

Do not apply protective measures and anti-damping on the part of Kosovo institutions made competition unfair.

<x0) ITA.

And, spokesperson for the Kosovo Food and Veterinary Agency, Lamir Thaci has said they control all cargo of animal-born food products, including imported milk.

During this year we haven't had any problems, all loads have been complete with documentation according to the laws and regulations in force. All samples have resulted within the preset limits for insurance of products so we haven't had a stop or a refusal to this type of product”, Thaci said.

Kosovo Customs spokesman Adriatic Stavileci has said that milk worth 17m euros has been imported this year.

The milk imported according to him is of various kinds. “So far this year, 27 million litres of milk of various kinds have been imported. Import milk value totals 17m euros until this value should be added to tax payment”, spokesperson Stavileci indicated.