The thirtieth edition of the Sommet de l'Élevage, in Clermont-Ferrand in France

Jean-François Blanc, responsible for managing the exhibitors, the conference cycle and the communication of the Breeding Summit.

© Sayouba Traoré / RFI

By: Sayouba Traoré

2 min

This is a must visit, because this Breeding Summit is the n ° 1 Breeding Show in Europe.

180,000 m2 of exhibition space, 1,400 exhibitors, including 300 international exhibitors from 30 countries, 2,000 animals, 30 conferences, 21 farm visits, 93,000 visitors, nearly 5,000 foreign visitors from 90 countries, 100,000 transactions commercials on average each edition, everything here is gigantic.

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To better situate things, a little history.

In 1984, there was the milk quota system in France, then later at the level of the European Union.

At the time, there was a very large surplus of milk production.

Too much milk means lower prices for milk and butter, and lower yields for breeders.

To cope, we imagined the policy of milk quotas.

It is a complex mechanism that we will try to simplify.

With these quotas, each breeder had a production quota that he should not exceed, under penalty of a fine.

This milk quota policy within the framework of the common agricultural policy has made it possible to stabilize costs and prices.

We may have forgotten the atmosphere of that time, but thirty years ago milk quotas were abolished.

This leads to

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We had to do something.

The Livestock Summit was therefore imagined to promote meat breeds.

Guest

Jean-François Blanc,

responsible for managing the exhibitors, the conference cycle and the communication of the Breeding Summit.

Production: Sayouba Traoré

Director: Ewa Piedel

Jean-François Blanc, responsible for managing the exhibitors, the conference cycle and the communication of the Breeding Summit.

© Sayouba Traoré / RFI

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