Separatornoe decision

You will see whether in the province of milk
The proposal to create zaksobraniya deputies to protect farmers against arbitrary state-owned enterprise monopoly on processing dairy products has caused mixed reactions experts.
According to the Regional Administration Federal Antimonopoly Service, the rules of the game on the edge of the milk market dictate the three largest companies. In spring of this year reduced the processing purchase prices almost doubled. At that retail price has risen steadily. Villagers grabbed for his head - to sell milk was simply unprofitable.
-- The fact that processors have lowered the purchase price with the least cost 13 rubles to 11 first and then do up to seven and a half - neither of which did not go to the gate - negoduet leader of one of the largest agricultural enterprises province Valery Isaev. -- There is no economic justification for such a step does not. For the year nadaivaem 28 thousand tons, but now profitable milk discharge pigs.
Specialists say that such "games" in the market will lead to a reduction in dairy herds, and hence the deficit to dairy products. The deputies of the Legislative Assembly decided that the time has come to decisive action.
-- Last year in the region were produced 328 thousand tons of milk - at six million fewer than in 2006 - m - said the regional chairman of the Agricultural Committee of Parliament Alexander Damm. -- As a result, on average, residents of the province annually consumes 244 liters of milk, while the rules set no less than 390.
Regional parliamentarians appealed to the regional administration Federal Antimonopoly Service to obtain a legal assessment of the situation. As the same mechanism that can influence the purchase prices, the Administration proposed to create a state enterprise edge on processing dairy products.
According to experts, it could create a serious alternative to large processing companies. Such an experience in the region already have - not only for food and fuel market. In the province is working enterprises "Krasnoyarsk-oil", which was created not for profit but for the ability to control the prices of fuel. The deputies believe that milk and allow the public to contain the fall in procurement costs.
Processors in informal conversations say that power tolknet pressure to expand their output of dairy products from powdered blends - this is the most cost-effective. According to the Deputy Head of Regional Administration Federal Antimonopoly Service Oleg Kharchenko, will not be able to stop and entrepreneurs in Russia recently adopted Law on TRs milk.
-- This will not lead to what kind of products in shops province will be more - he says. -- In terms of storage technology vendors dairy drinks more profitable than milk. But rules will help curb market manipulation, when affected by the supplements achieved a substantial difference between the cost of product and profit from it. That is, help eliminate so-called unfair competition.
Meanwhile, experts believe that not one state enterprises and farmers protect consumers from arbitrary monopolists. The presence of State on milk market should be expanded.

Competent
Alexander Yarosh,
Vice President boundary peasant associations and farmers:
-- Creating a dairy state - a phenomenon that certainly positive. But the problem of increasing production of dairy products and prices it can solve only extensive network of businesses under the control of authorities. In Soviet times in each district existed dairies. Now they can be counted on the fingers. Why not go back to the system, but on the basis of agricultural, who now can not develop because of lack of working capital? District authorities could help them with money, and cooperatives, in turn, would guarantee a fixed level and purchase prices, and wholesale value of dairy products.

Vyacheslav Korzun