Installation and access to land for young farmers, ecological planning: the government will increase the 2024 agricultural budget by “almost a billion euros” to support these transitions, Minister Marc Fesneau announced on Sunday.
The additional sum will be added to the approximately 5.9 billion euros of the French agricultural budget in 2023, an increase of around 15%, underlined the minister, on the sidelines of a speech by Mr. Fesneau during the Terre de Jim Cambrai (North) organized by the Young Farmers union (JA), close to the majority FNSEA union.
The additional effort, compared to 2023, will reach 2.6 to 2.7 billion by 2026, added the minister.
In his speech transmitted to AFP, Marc Fesneau announced that the agricultural orientation bill, which had initially been announced for the fall, should be examined in Parliament by December, in first reading probably there. National Assembly.
Based on a pact which also includes regulatory measures, this law is supposed to help rebuild French agriculture, both to ensure the transfer of farms, the establishment of young farmers and the environmental transition of a sector which must continue to produce the country’s food supply while reducing its CO2 emissions.
As part of the planning, the government plans in particular the creation of a food sovereignty and ecological transition fund which will be intended to enable farms to locally adapt their economic model to the requirements of decarbonization of activities, development of production renewable energy or adaptation to climate change, said the minister.