The 2023 budget of the Ministry of Agriculture is on the rise.

This is even "20% compared to the previous budget", in particular to finance the new system of crop insurance and agricultural education.

The finance bill for 2023 provides for a budget of 5.987 billion euros "excluding the transfer of the "fishing" envelope to the State Secretariat for the Sea", detailed the executive on Monday.

This increase “is a sign of our commitment and our determination to act for the benefit of our farmers and for our food sovereignty”, commented on Twitter the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau.

Encourage farmers to insure their crops

The increase is therefore partly linked to the financing of the harvest insurance system in the face of climate risks which will come into existence on 1 January next and will be provided by the State with 256 million euros in 2023. To this will be added 120 million euros from the National Agricultural Risk Management Fund (FNGRA) and 184 million from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), bringing public support to 560 million next year.

The amount of 600 million euros, mentioned by Emmanuel Macron in September during a trip to Outarville, in the Loiret, with young farmers, will be reached "by 2025" when the envelope "will increase from 256 million euros in 2023 to 296 million", according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

But depending on "the evolution of the rate of distribution of insurance", the objective of which is to encourage a greater number of farmers to insure their crops, "this amount may be raised in the finance bill corrigendum 2023, in accordance with the commitments of the President of the Republic”, also reported the ministry on Monday evening.

Among the other priorities, agricultural education will benefit with research from more than 2 billion euros.

Of this sum, 1.6 billion will be devoted to the training of 136,000 students in technical education, aimed at meeting the challenge of generational renewal.

Subsidies from the Common Agricultural Policy, of which France is the leading beneficiary country, will remain stable at 9.4 billion euros.

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