LThe content of the declarations of the President of the Republic at the opening of the Agricultural Show and those of the Prime Minister completes the definition of a government response to the systemic agricultural crisis, a response that is the opposite of respect for the Earth. However, the defenders of life, to which we belong, affirm loud and clear that the agriculture of the future can only be respectful of natural ecosystems.
If the origin of the current wave of mobilization is climatic, it was quickly used by the agro-industry to demand a reduction in the environmental standards to which it is subject. This confiscation would almost make us forget its deep roots: the dependence of the current model on agri-food circuits and large-scale distribution which impoverishes farmers.
Fallow land, ponds, more sober varieties
By backpedaling on the limitation of the use of inputs, the government has further clarified its vision of the agricultural model to be saved and prioritized. It thus undermines its own aims in terms of ecological transition, which agriculture must be able to continue to advance.
The ambition for agricultural practices compatible with environmental protection, without renouncing social progress and sustainable innovation, is more disrupted than ever, almost disavowed. The gap is widening between the executive and the change makers, more than worried about the ostracism of the objectives that they support and support.
Many people have been committed on a daily basis for years to making agriculture and the environment, tillage and wildlife coexist, and continue to improve their practices in this direction. Organic, in transition, or even conventional while trying to limit their impact, many farmers consciously compensate for the effects of their production by diversifying crops, increasing fallows, digging ponds, prioritizing breeds and varieties more sober, by creating new circuits…
These supporters of a symbiosis are, for example, bruised by the administrative simplification of the uprooting of hedges, real bonuses for the destruction of biodiversity by facilitating the annihilation of its last refuges.
Doubly bitter observation
This desire to move forward, to cultivate their sensitivity to the environment and to increase their knowledge of it, they share with researchers from institutes, ecologists, naturalists, advisers in chambers of agriculture, many of whom are disappointed in the face of to the current situation which is so damaging to the research and progress undertaken.
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