With nowhere to sell their product, some Chinese dairy farmers had to throw out milk and kill their cows. Slumping（暴跌）global milk prices since the second half of 2014 have pushed many dairy farmers to desperation（绝望）.
"A ton of milk has to be thrown each day," said dairy farmer Pei Shuke in Shandong Province. "We have rarely been this desperate."
On Sunday, The Ministry of Agriculture announced（声称）that it would help dairy farmers in northern China. The ministry said it had talked to major dairy firms including Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group and Mengniu Dairy Group, and urged them to purchase more milk, stabilize（使稳定）prices and safeguard the interest of dairy farmers.
The ministry will work with central government departments including the Ministry of Finance to map out more supportive（支持的）policies to help dairy farmers to overcome their difficulty.
So far, the desperation among farmers has spread to many major milk-producing areas in China, including Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and Guangdong.
Wang Dingmian, former managing director of China's Dairy Association, said throwing milk and killing cows started in 2009, and over 100,000 farmers have quit the industry each year.
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