Highways blocked, prefectures and supermarkets covered in slurry: everywhere in France, farmers are continuing their actions. They hope to obtain “ concrete measures » while the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, brought together several ministers in Matignon, Thursday morning. The FNSEA and Jeunes Agriculteurs, the two majority unions in the agricultural world, transmitted around a hundred demands to the Prime Minister.
Among them, a response on remuneration is awaited. “We like our job. We like going to the stable. But, frankly, when we see what we earn, in the evening, we are tired, we are at the end of our rope and we no longer want to.” laments Sylvain Weber, farmer and mayor of Zollingen, at a roadblock.
Farmers are also hoping for emergency aid for viticulture and organic farming, two sectors particularly in difficulty. In the longer term, farmers are calling for a reduction in the standards imposed on them, particularly certain environmental standards.
Gabriel Attal promised to give them an answer on Friday January 26. The Ile-de-France branches of the FNSEA and Jeunes Agriculteurs called for a blockade of Paris the same day.