The agricultural sector was included in the list of professions in tension in France, according to a decree published on March 2, 2024 in the Official Journal (AFP/Fred TANNEAU)
The decree including the agricultural production sector in the list of professions in tension to make it easier to use non-European labor, was published on Saturday in the Official Journal.
Faced with the anger of farmers, the government announced a series of measures and initiated a consultation before the opening of the Agricultural Show in order to include in this list agricultural professions struggling to recruit.
The Ministry of Agriculture undertook to publish this decree “by March 2”.
Salaried farmers and breeders, salaried market gardeners and horticulturists as well as salaried wine growers and arboriculturists are now considered to be professions in tension throughout the territory.
“Companies in the agricultural sector will thus be able to recruit, as needed, labor from outside the European Union by dispensing with the opposability of the employment situation,” explained the Minister of Agriculture on X Agriculture Marc Fesneau.
On the eve of the closure of the Agricultural Show, farmers are maintaining pressure on the government.
More than 400 million euros in emergency measures were announced by the government, which promised a shock of simplification, the strengthening of Egalim laws to protect farmers’ income and which placed agriculture at the rank of a “major general interest”.
The agricultural unions have a meeting with Emmanuel Macron in mid-March, before the presentation of an agricultural orientation law in the spring.
© 2024 AFP
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