Paris (AFP)
"Macron, answer us!": In front of all the prefectures, this morning and until noon, the peasants make their distress heard and ask the head of state to defend them against the evils which affect a sector in crisis, to the FNSEA and Young Farmers (JA) appeal.
"Agribashing" or deconsideration of the agricultural world and its practices, overtranspositions of European regulations, free trade agreements, late payments of European aid: the reasons for tension are numerous.
Already mobilized on October 8, farmers, numbering 10,000 according to the FNSEA, had blocked major roads throughout France.
There will be some snail operations on Tuesday, but "there is no blockage, these are actions in front of the prefectures to launch an appeal to the President of the Republic", told AFP Jérôme Despey, secretary general of FNSEA, the main agricultural union.
From Arles to Epinal, from Haute-Savoie to Gironde, the peasants intend to gather before the prefectures and challenge, through them, the head of state, operations of tarpaulin in support, the hashtag #SauveTonPaysan in shoulder.
"We finally demand a response from the President of the Republic, answer that he owes to the thousands of French peasants as the time is serious!", Says the FDSEA of Herault.
"We can not interest young people to come in this sector with a record that is still very dark," said Arnaud Gaillot, secretary general of the JA, which recalls the "demographic challenge" that faces the tricolor agriculture: in the next ten years, one peasant out of two will leave the profession.
In addition to farm intrusions by antispecies activists or pressure on the use of plant protection products, with the establishment of pesticide non-treatment areas (ZNTs), many farmers are deploring low income, part because of the price war of the actors of the large distribution.
A situation that had to be regulated at least partially the Food Law, supposed to bring back income in the course of farms by rebalancing the commercial relations between peasants, industrialists and distributors.
"The account is not" as for the remuneration of farmers, acknowledged Monday the Minister of Agriculture, Didier Guillaume during a review of this law, which will enter in November in year II of its application , before promising to "harden things, harden them politically".
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