Carole Ferry, edited by Ugo Pascolo 06:39, March 30, 2022

The presidential candidates have an appointment at the FNSEA this Wednesday.

During this meeting, the first agricultural union in the country intends to ask them to better protect certain sectors, in particular poultry and fruit and vegetables.

Because in these two cases, nearly 50% of sales are actually products that come from abroad.

Candidates take the FNSEA oral exam.

In front of the main union in the agricultural world, the candidates will of course address the Ukrainian subject, income and retirement from the agricultural world, or even the CAP.

But this meeting less than 15 days before the first round of the presidential election is above all an opportunity for poultry and fruit and vegetable producers to hammer home the importance of made in France to the contenders for the succession of Emmanuel Macron. .

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40% of the chickens sold in France come from abroad...

And this is not surprising.

For chickens for example, 40% which are sold in France come from abroad.

Without a label, your poultry therefore has a good chance of coming from Poland, Germany, Thailand or Brazil.

In the chickens from the country of Bolsonaro, there are also factory farms of billions of square meters containing millions of chickens raised with growth antibiotics.

If the legislation now requires importers to check the quality of products, there is more control to limit what Yann Nedelec calls "unfair competition".

"Today, the price of Brazilian chicken arriving at the port of Antwerp or Rotterdam is half that of French chicken", he recalls at the microphone of Europe 1. "Obviously, it is not not produced with the same rules, with the same requirements. So yes, it is purely unfair competition."

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... ditto for 50% of fruits and vegetables

And the situation is hardly better for fruits and vegetables since half of those sold in France come from abroad.

And if we must take into account in this calculation the exotic fruits, impossible in any case to grow in France, this does not prevent the producers from claiming the necessary aid to double the surface of the tricolor orchards in the next ten years, with the aim of ensuring our food security.