The agricultural sector included in professions in tension in the Official Journal

Europe 1 with AFP 3:57 p.m., March 2, 2024

The decree including the agricultural production sector in the list of professions in tension to make it easier to use non-European labor, was published on Saturday in the Official Journal.

Faced with the anger of farmers, the government announced a series of measures and initiated a consultation before the opening of the Agricultural Show in order to include in this list agricultural professions struggling to recruit.

The Ministry of Agriculture undertook to publish this decree “by March 2”.

“Companies in the agricultural sector will thus be able to recruit labor from outside the European Union”

Salaried farmers and breeders, salaried market gardeners and horticulturists as well as salaried winegrowers and arboriculturists are now considered to be professions in tension throughout the territory.

“Companies in the agricultural sector will thus be able to recruit, as needed, labor from outside the European Union by dispensing with the opposability of the employment situation,” explained the Minister of Agriculture on X Agriculture Marc Fesneau.

On the eve of the closure of the Agricultural Show, farmers are maintaining pressure on the government.

The Government is meeting its commitments.

The decree updating the list of professions in shortage has just been published.

Four professional families are now considered professions in tension throughout the metropolitan territory (farmers… pic.twitter.com/W1qsl29m9K

— Marc Fesneau (@MFesneau) March 2, 2024

More than 400 million euros in emergency measures were announced by the government, which promised a shock of simplification, the strengthening of Egalim laws to protect farmers' income and which placed agriculture at the rank of a “major general interest”.

The agricultural unions have a meeting with Emmanuel Macron in mid-March, before the presentation of an agricultural orientation law in the spring.