On Friday, in the city of Horta, The Regional Secretary for Agriculture and Forestry said that the milk processing industry "ought not transfer to the producers responsibility for present market difficulties."
Noé Rodrigues said this in reaction to the intention of some milk processing industries to significantly lower the prices they pay farmers for milk during the next Summer period.
He said that it is "immoral that industries do this" given that, in the past two years, the "market was favourable" to their products, yet this was not reflected in the "the prices they offered to the milk-producing farmers.