The National Milk Council has reached an agreement with milk suppliers to the government’s breakfast program that will allow local farmers to sell at least 50% of the milk needed for the program. According to Cesareo and Pablo Contreras, the presidents of the Cattle Farmers and Farmers Association and the Federation of Cattle Farmers Associations, the agreement with CONALECHE came after a series of meetings with Conaleche officials last week. The cattle farmers also said that they had asked the Minister of Agriculture not to issue any import permits for powdered milk to the School Breakfast Program unless the suppliers had complied with the Law of Government Purchasing. Currently only 10% to 15% of the milk used in the school breakfast program is purchased locally.