After the freezing episode, the Association of Regions of France asks the government to create "a dedicated emergency fund".
Faced with the extent of the damage, the association requires an exceptional effort "allowing the compensation of charges and loss of revenue".
Faced with the freezing episode that hit France this week, the Association of Regions of France asked the government this Friday to create "a dedicated emergency fund".
For the organization, the negative temperatures of the last nights have damaged "entire areas of our agriculture".
"Faced with the extent of the damage, the disaster fund or the classic solutions, such as the deferral of charges or taxes, provided in the event of an episode of freezing, must be reinforced by an exceptional effort allowing the compensation of charges and losses. loss of revenue, "said Regions of France in a press release.
Farms in danger
The Regions "ask the government to set up this mechanism in the name of national solidarity".
"The risk today is to see many farms disappear," they stress.
"We must at all costs put in place a system commensurate with the subject and the losses encountered by our farmers."
According to Christine Lambert, president of the FNSEA, "some regions are at 100% loss" she said at the microphone of Europe 1. The creation of a special compensation fund has already been demanded by the LR president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional council, Laurent Wauquiez.