Every year the Department of Commerce's decision on the establishment of a stock market regulation in milk drinking has just appeared in the JORT (40 million L at 31/07/10). This laudable initiative helps regulate the market during the period of low production (from September to January) and prevents the import of milk drinking to counteract the shortage that usually accompanies this time.
To perfect the strategy of the department store trade in recent years has assigned storage quotas to each dairy producer's milk drink. These quotas are proportional to market shares of each brand. Furthermore, it has assigned monthly inventory levels that ensure their strict implementation. And as these measures were insufficient, there was also in the past to the implementation of certain measures to prohibit the manufacture of by-products (yogurt, fermented milk, whole milk, skim milk, fortified milk, ...) to direct all milk reaching the docks of dairies in the manufacture of semi-skimmed milk.
Despite all these measures there has been drastic during the last off-season production with a shortage of quality and not quantity. Indeed, consumers have shown strong demand for two brands in particular and there was talk of shortages whenever these two brands were scarce on the shelves while huge stocks of other brands met the same shelves.
What then?
New this year is that the commerce ministry will oversee the operation of destocking all dairies. Each dairy has more latitude to freely sell its products since it has a stock level monthly follow lest its subsidy storage and production of high value-added confiscated.
The paradox that concerns me in this story is: Why
crack in the organized sector during the low production season and condone the actions of an informal sector that knows that its peak during the same period? Yet the laws prohibiting the direct sale of raw milk are explicit, the services of the Ministry of Commerce will simply enforce the law. Why
figures on market supply during this period would be greater than the percentage of adulteration and the number of pathogens: brucellosis, salmonella, listeria, tuberculosis, ... that contains milk peddled door to door or intended to dairies in urban and peri-urban areas?
Would it not be wiser to rage with these peddlers and allow to redirect more raw milk to dairies, (500 000-600 000 L / d of raw milk (or what looks like raw milk ) creameries supplying the Greater Tunis during the month of Ramadan)? To think
To perfect the strategy of the department store trade in recent years has assigned storage quotas to each dairy producer's milk drink. These quotas are proportional to market shares of each brand. Furthermore, it has assigned monthly inventory levels that ensure their strict implementation. And as these measures were insufficient, there was also in the past to the implementation of certain measures to prohibit the manufacture of by-products (yogurt, fermented milk, whole milk, skim milk, fortified milk, ...) to direct all milk reaching the docks of dairies in the manufacture of semi-skimmed milk.
Despite all these measures there has been drastic during the last off-season production with a shortage of quality and not quantity. Indeed, consumers have shown strong demand for two brands in particular and there was talk of shortages whenever these two brands were scarce on the shelves while huge stocks of other brands met the same shelves.
What then?
New this year is that the commerce ministry will oversee the operation of destocking all dairies. Each dairy has more latitude to freely sell its products since it has a stock level monthly follow lest its subsidy storage and production of high value-added confiscated.
The paradox that concerns me in this story is: Why
crack in the organized sector during the low production season and condone the actions of an informal sector that knows that its peak during the same period? Yet the laws prohibiting the direct sale of raw milk are explicit, the services of the Ministry of Commerce will simply enforce the law. Why
figures on market supply during this period would be greater than the percentage of adulteration and the number of pathogens: brucellosis, salmonella, listeria, tuberculosis, ... that contains milk peddled door to door or intended to dairies in urban and peri-urban areas?
Would it not be wiser to rage with these peddlers and allow to redirect more raw milk to dairies, (500 000-600 000 L / d of raw milk (or what looks like raw milk ) creameries supplying the Greater Tunis during the month of Ramadan)? To think
