Low purchase prices as well as the absence of an established fixed purchase threshold for milk, the actual inaction of the control services of the regional executive authorities – these are the main problems that have been troubling Volyn peasant producers for the second month now in the area of selling raw products to milk processors. \n Yesterday, at the initiative of the Institute for Analysis of State and Regional Policy in Lutsk, a round table of the Volyn Association of Rural Leaders was held with the participation of People's Deputy of Ukraine Yevhen KyryLchuk ("BYuT"). At present, the purchase price indicator for milk in the region is 60 kopecks per liter, however this is not reflected in lower prices for dairy products. Rural community leaders of Volyn are primarily dissatisfied with this price situation on the market, in whose opinion the lower purchase price per liter of milk should fluctuate from 90 kopecks to 1 hryvnia. \n According to Yevhen KyryLchuk, in Volyn there are several monopolists-owners of milk processing enterprises who, having divided among themselves the zones of influence on the milk market, will in every way try to slow down the process of raising purchase prices for the products of peasant producers. According to the People's Deputy, the cause of such a crisis situation is primarily the absence of a clear contractual system between producers and processors. Yevhen KyryLchuk sent a deputy's request to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, with the aim of the government adopting a resolution on fixing the lower price threshold for milk purchases. \n In turn, representatives of the Volyn Association of Rural Leaders stated that, in the event of the absence of an appropriate government response to resolving the problems of the crisis price situation on the milk market in the region, the former will be forced to resort to harsher methods of protecting their own rights, namely blocking the milk processing enterprises of the region and not handing over their own products to the latter. \n For reference, let us recall that one of the largest milk processing enterprises in Ukraine is OJSC "Kovelmoloko", whose milk procurement zones include all districts of Volyn region, as well as the neighboring Ternopil, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskyi regions. The investor of OJSC "Kovelmoloko" is the production and commercial firm "Kontynium", whose general director is People's Deputy of Ukraine (constituency No. 23), member of the faction of the "People's Party of Ukraine" Ihor Yeremieiev.