REUTERS: The Trump administration plans to buy milk and meat from US farmers as part of an initial US$15.5 billion effort to help them weather the ...
REUTERS: The Trump administration plans to buy milk and meat from US farmers as part of an initial US$15.5 billion effort to help them weather the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on Wednesday .
Reuters reported on Monday that Department of Agriculture will spend up to US$15.5 billion in the initial phase of its plan to bolster the nation's food supply chain against the impacts of the outbreak, the first big push to ensure the pandemic doesn't trigger consumer food shortages. Some dairy farmers have also been dumping milk because of a loss of their regular buyers, and labourers and truckers are in short supply to work farms and deliver produce, according to Reuters reporting.On Tuesday, the National Pork Producers Council, which represents US hog farmers, called on the administration to help by purchasing more than US$1 billion in pork, and using it to supplement food bank programmes facing increased demand due to rising unemployment.
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