Emmanuel Macron at the Agricultural Show, in Paris, February 22, 2020 -

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The Agricultural Show should have been held from February 27 to March 7, 2021, but was canceled due to the health crisis.

On these same dates, France Télévisions will be offering a special program, the ambition of which is to bring the French people closer to those who cultivate, educate and innovate.

"FTV wants to take advantage of the window usually devoted to the show to provide a look at agriculture in the broad sense, by relying on its exceptional network, with the networks of France 3 in the region and La 1ère in Outremer", explained Yannick Letranchant, director of special operations for information and branches of the public group.

Showcase French agriculture

"France Télévisions has a role to play: to promote French agriculture, and we want, during these days, to make its men and women, its land and its stories even more visible", he said. added.

And this via a program which will combine reports, magazines, documentaries, on the various branches of the group and on the digital, and which will cover several topics, trades and training to environmental issues through innovative processes, Europe, transmission farms and debates around the agriculture of tomorrow.

"The confinement has reconciled the French with their agriculture"

All the more so, notes France Télévisions, as several issues have become more familiar to the general public due to the health crisis.

"We started from the observation that the first confinement reconciled, if it was necessary, the French with their agriculture: we rediscovered on this occasion the short circuits and the problem of food sovereignty", argues in particular Yannick Letranchant.

If the 2021 edition of the Agricultural Show is canceled due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the organizers nevertheless want to maintain the general competition for agricultural products and public debates.

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