A new phase opens with the Prime Minister’s latest announcements on agriculture, commented on Saturday the majority unions, the FNSEA and the Young Farmers, who promise to be “extremely vigilant” to monitor their realization.
The two unions “now consider that the phase of work following the mobilizations started last November is ending. The third phase of monitoring the concrete implementation of each of the measures now opens,” they underlined in a joint press release.
The government made public “complementary” measures in favor of farmers on Saturday, in the hope of ending for good the crisis which caused exceptional blockages at the start of the year.
Among these measures are the promised presentation “at the beginning of May” of the final version of the Ecophyto pesticide reduction plan, put on hold due to the agricultural crisis, new cash flow aid for farms, the acceleration of 100 production projects. water storage or irrigation, and an aid plan for three departments hit by weather crises (Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Hérault).
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is expected on Saturday with the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau in Pirou, in Manche, where they will visit a “whelk fair” and then a market garden.
The FNSEA and the JA assured that they would be “vigilant” regarding the “rapid and complete realization” of these announcements. “The texts must conform to the hopes raised and not fall short of the promises,” they warned.
According to Matignon, the deputies must examine on Monday the agricultural orientation bill, revised after the crisis. With subjects such as training, hedges or the revision of the scale of penalties in the event of damage to nature, it aims to accelerate the arrival of new generations of farmers, relieved of certain environmental constraints.
The unions call on “all parliamentarians to demonstrate responsibility to translate all of this progress into the laws currently being examined or to come”.