Wilfried Devillers // Photo credit: Estelle Ruiz / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP 7:26 p.m., March 16, 2024
Gabriel Attal kicked off Montbéliard, the French capital of culture and the ceremony that goes with it.
A ceremony called “Happy Bazaar”.
This agricultural world, which the Prime Minister was able to see up close this afternoon in Franche-Comté, is awaiting responses to all the promises made before and during the Agricultural Show.
The agricultural world is still waiting.
After several weeks of mobilizations, the agricultural crisis had led to a series of measures and promises from the government, before, and even during the Agricultural Show, such as tax relief linked to non-road diesel, but not only .
Promises from which farmers are still awaiting implementation.
This is the case of Jean Rico, a cereal grower in Oise.
“It’s a question of life and death for French agriculture”
"In particular on the reimbursement on petroleum products. The State paid us this difference, it was even a word from the Prime Minister. We would already see this in our treasury, it would come back to our farms. And today, a many of my colleagues received nothing,” he says.
He believes that the government is starting to "lie to us, to lead us along."
“On certain points, it has made progress, but it is dragging, it is dragging and it is not good.”
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An expectation that could translate into new actions to force the government to act: "Just this week, we talked about it. As soon as the group decides, we go back down, we take our tractors and we leave on the roads. We have to keep up this pressure because we have to be heard. It's a question of life and death for French agriculture."