Sandrine Prioul / Photo credits: PATRICK BATARD / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 8:29 a.m., January 24, 2024

After Gironde, Occitanie, the Grand Ouest and Île-de-France, Brittany joins in the anger of farmers.

Blocking actions are announced this Wednesday in Finistère, Morbihan and Côtes-d'Armor where Europe 1 met the leaders of the movement.

The agricultural crisis is growing and a rural and agricultural region par excellence, a region where the anger of farmers is traditionally feared, enters the round, Brittany.

A week after the start of the blockades in Occitania and the mobilization of farmers, the Bretons enter the round.

As if to sharpen their weapons, to organize themselves, they have held numerous meetings over the past week to agree and know how to put pressure.

From this Wednesday noon, they plan to block six to eight traffic points in Brittany, for an unlimited period for some.

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We are going to “block the roads for an indefinite period”

“They're waiting for us, but we've been waiting for them too, so we're all kind of heading there.”

Strongly awaited support, that of Breton farmers.

“We’ve been warning for three months,” recalls Florian Gauthier at the Young Farmers.

"We are happy to be heard more because in fact, our first demonstrations were not repeated. That was a big disappointment. We started quite calmly in the fall. Now, we are going to push up a notch and block the roads for an indefinite period to really show that people are fed up and push the pressure to the limit,” he says.

“We need to mobilize at the national level to finally be heard”

A more palpable pressure in the light, confirms Fabienne Garel, president of the FDSEA of Côtes-d'Armor.

“Today, we need to be able to mobilize at the national level to finally be heard even though we had previously warned. We had already exposed the regulatory inconsistencies that gradually came to our attention. We were not didn't listen, they didn't let us work."

These breeders remind us that food sovereignty must be more than just lip service.