2024-02-01 07:07:39
For Véronique Le Floc’h, president of Rural Coordination, “the objective has been achieved” and the tractors will turn around once the people arrested in police custody have been released.
“We are dying,” summarizes an organic farmer, symbol of a sector in crisis for several years, which represents 14% of French farms and suffers from the margins of mass distribution or “unfair” competition from imports without quality criteria.
Aurore Sournac, 50 years old, organic market gardener in Eysines (Gironde) who supplies ten AMAP (Association for the Maintenance of Peasant Agriculture): “It’s the whole of agriculture that is revolting. Wholesale organic tomatoes are the same price as conventional tomatoes, but you can find them in supermarkets at 5 or 6 euros per kilo. Who made the margin? Large distribution. And alongside that, farmers are dying. »
On Wednesday evening, French and Belgian farmers blocked a point on the border “together”, denouncing “the distortion of competition” ratified by free trade agreements, and demanding “very strong announcements” on Thursday.
The French President must meet before 10:00 a.m. with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on the subject of the “future of European agriculture”, announced the Elysée, before this extraordinary European Summit devoted to the EU budget and aid to Ukraine. Meanwhile, more than 500 tractors are expected to invade the Belgian town to put pressure on
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