Members of the Peasant diet of Latvia declares that if in the near future producers of dairy and meat products will not receive assistance from the state and the EU, there will be mass layoffs, slaughter and liquidation of companies, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the message of the organization.

The tense situation in the industry has occurred due to the overproduction of dairy products and lower procurement prices.

"Yesterday I received information about the new procurement price of milk, and today I have to lay off employees. Letts get one gallon of milk only € 0.17. In the near future to many farms will apply words such as "massacre" and "liquidation", - said the member of the Board of Directors of the Sejm ewa Alpes Eisenberg.

One of the entrepreneurs reported that "works in the negative", which contain animal becomes impossible, and the cattle genetically valuable breeds have to sell.

In June, the portal Agro2b.ru reportedthat in Latvia increased milk production, and soon the EU quota for dairy products can be exceeded. If this happens, farmers avoid fines from Europe will curb the sale of milk, processing it yourself or feeding cattle. Latvia exports about 40% of the milk produced, mainly in Lithuania.

After the introduction of Russia's embargo on the import of products from Europe, Prime Minister of the Republic of Laimdota Straujuma said that Russia imposed an embargo on food imports from the EU will pay Latvia loss of $ 55 million euros. Member of the European Parliament (EP) from Latvia Andrew Mamykin sent to the President of the European Commission (EC) Jose Manuela Barroso official letter with the request to lift the economic sanctions against Russia. According to the MEP, the "war of sanctions" between the EU and Russia resembles the situation before the First world war and leads to an impasse.

In late August, the representative of the European Commission in Latvia statedthat the EU does not compensate for the Milkmen countries all damage from the embargo of the Russian Federation. The EC today considers two types of victims support from the Russian embargo European Milkmen.

In 2013, Latvia exported to Russia a little more than 2 thousand tons of milk and cream and about the same amount of dairy products. In 2014 the volume of supply of milk and cream to ban exceeded the figure for the whole of 2013, amounting 3,95 thousand tons, while shipments of dairy products decreased to 1.6 thousand tons