Goran Mugoša doesn't want to spill the milk, he'll give it away: "Whoever wants it, let them come to the farm..."

Goran Mugoša, a farmer from the Podgorica settlement of Donja Gorica, will not waste milk – he says he would rather give it away.

"Whoever wants, let them come to the farm, five liters, ten liters, with a full heart, let them come with a water bottle, I'll fill it for them, let them carry it, but I won't spill it. Because I think it's a sin. I struggle, I work here, I'm practically on the farm 24 hours a day - I'm a veterinarian, a worker, and a milker," Mugoša told "Boje jutra" on Vijesti Television.

He has about 40 head of cattle and young stock on his family farm, and the dairy he works with has announced the suspension of milk purchases starting tomorrow.

"We were surprised by the call from the dairy director - he called us yesterday and said that he can buy milk for two more days because his storage room is full. We don't know what to do. So, I'm taken aback, I can't think, I can't find a system, what to do," says Mugoša.

He produces up to 350 liters of domestic Montenegrin milk daily, and he does not see the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management for retail chains to buy milk as a long-term solution.

"The solution is not for us to solve it in three days, four days, that surplus, but the solution is long-term to end it, to say that we are finished, that we do not have a problem. Because these are everyday stresses. I think that retail chains cannot solve it. They cannot buy our raw milk, because they have nowhere to put it. So, it has to be processed and then they can buy it. But they do not buy it, they buy imported milk. And you have imported milk on the shelves, and our domestic milk is not there. How can imported milk be fresher and better than ours? It cannot be clear. But our people buy imported milk because it is cheaper. We should set one price for domestic milk, and the imported milk is more expensive," explains Mugoša.

In addition to the problems with purchasing, Mugoša also points out the personal cost of farming. Behind every liter of milk, he says, are years of work, huge investments, and stress that he admits is hard to bear.

"You can't do this job today and not do it tomorrow. This job has been done for years, we've been investing for years. For example, I invested 300.000 euros in machinery, I took out a loan of 100.000, finished, mortgaged my house, mortgaged my property. I don't know if I can endure it for a long period of time, to be normal, to remain mentally stable, to not get sick because of such things," Mugoša concludes.