The 58th International Agricultural Show, at Porte de Versailles, in February 2022. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP
DECRYPTION – The farmers, who meet for nine days at the show, are taken by the throat by the multiplication of environmental constraints in an already tense economic and climatic context.
A year after the start of the war in Ukraine and six months after the worst drought in forty years, French agriculture is facing new challenges. Climate change will cost the agricultural sector more than 3 billion euros (loss of crops, changes in orchards, drop in production, etc.). Geopolitical tensions have driven up costs and underscored the importance of food sovereignty. But while the presidential visit will launch the unmissable International Agricultural Show this Saturday, it is above all the debates on environmental constraints in France that should fuel tensions in the aisles of the Porte de Versailles. Emmanuel Macron has planned to go at milking time to the largest ephemeral farm, which for nine days welcomes more than 4,000 animals, 1,400 breeders and a hundred veterinarians. He should spend the day there, a long time worthy of the challenges that await…
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