The Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, called for a “mutual understanding” between agriculture and society, Monday during the Burgundy stage of his tour of France of preparatory consultations for a “Pact” and the future agricultural orientation and future law.
We need to build something for mutual understanding, said the minister while participating in regional consultations, in Burgundy, preparatory to an agricultural orientation bill and a pact aimed at adapting to climate change and renewing generations.
This work, which takes place in each region, must ask what relationship between society and agriculture the country wants, he added, stressing the need for dialogue on water use, especially after the recent violent demonstrations in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Svres) around the mega-basins. The discussion is mandatory, said the minister, rejecting a model where there would be good and bad.
A need for dialogue around the use of water
Otherwise, we will not move forward. I don’t know of any complex issues that aren’t resolved through dialogue. We share the same plant. You have to sit around the table. We need to get everyone on board, asserted the minister during a round table of the agricultural community in Pouilly-en-Auxois, in the countryside of the Cte-d’Orienne, on the law and the Pact.
These orientation and future texts should in particular help agriculture adapt to climate change and the renewal of generations, while some 100,000 farms should change hands by 2030, due to retirements.
A bill must be drawn up by the summer then a debate in Parliament rather in the fall, according to the minister, who has promised to go to all the territories to attend consultations with the Chambers of Agriculture on this subject. . Mr. Fesneau was Friday in Centre-Val de Loire, the region where he is elected. It must have been Tuesday in Seine-et-Marne.
The minister called for a territorial solution to the climatic constraint, because it is not exercised in the same way in Occitanie as in Bourgogne-Franche-Comt頻. We need a territorial vision, he judged.