“We will not relieve the pressure as long as the commitments [pris par le gouvernement] will not be held »warned, Thursday February 15, on RTL the president of the majority agricultural union FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, nine days before the Agricultural Show. “Sometimes there can be statements or big phrases. What we want is for this to come to fruition (…) on our farms”he added.
After the revolt of farmers throughout France in January, the government committed itself, to appease them, to measures ranging from the payment of emergency aid to simplification decrees through an agricultural law and changes to Brussels.
Despite the government’s commitments, numerous mobilizations took place throughout France on Thursday. In Poitiers, at the call of the Rural Coordination, demonstrators in tractors met at two gathering points. According to the independent farmers’ movement Resistance Paysanne and the regional daily Press Centerthe two convoys will reach the prefecture this evening.
Blocking of prefectures
HAS Montaubanthe farmers also planned to set up a camp in front of the prefecture to ” an indefinite period “. There were around a hundred people who mobilized towards the city center. According to information from La Dépêche du Midi, the main entrance to the departmental territorial directorate was covered with boards, agricultural tarpaulins and even manure. A delegation of farmers was received by the prefect of Tarn-et-Garonne, added BFM-TV.
In Chartres, around sixty farmers are currently blocking the Eure-et-Loir prefecture, reports Republican Echo. Unions and non-union members hope for one thing: to be received by the prefect for “ask for accountability on the progress of implementing government promises. »
In front of the Lactlis factory, near Bayeux, in Calvados, around twenty farmers were mobilized to denounce the sale of products not manufactured in France and which do not properly remunerate producers, said West France.
Around a hundred farmers occupied part of the gardens of the national domain of Chambord (Loir-et-Cher), at the call of the local rural coordination, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Arriving at the end of the morning on a little more than sixty tractors, the farmers parked their machines about a hundred meters from the castle, before deploying protest banners.
The farmers present also demanded, in vain, a trip by the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, himself an elected representative of the department. The prefect of Loir-et-Cher came to hear their demands, in particular on administrative simplification and the income problems encountered by operators, noted AFP. Since the lifting of the blockades, farmers have maintained pressure on the government and threatened further action.