Berlin, July 30 - The German government agreed a package of measures on Tuesday aimed ensuring a fair milk price for dairy farmers after they held a delivery strike last month to press their case.
Under the agreement, Germany's states said they were ready to implement some measures demanded by dairy farmers to control the amount of milk produced.
Federal Agriculture Minister Horst Seehofer also agreed to press for a European Union milk fund to help dairy farmers.
"I think we succeeded today in taking a first important step towards cost-effective prices," Romuald Schaber, chairman of the BDM dairy farmers' association, told reporters in Berlin.
The agreement between the federal government, Germany's states and dairy farmers was a partial success and more steps must follow, Schaber added.
The participants in Tuesday's talks could not, however, say by how much they expected the measures to impact the price of milk. German dairy farmers want a minimum 43 euro cents per litre of milk. They say prices now average 32 cents a litre.
The government held the talks after a months-long dispute over the price of milk. Last month, thousands of farmers protested at falling milk prices.