The anger of the agricultural world had germinated in Haute-Garonne in mid-January, it continues to smolder there. Since the start of the week, numerous actions have been carried out. Wednesday February 21, the Castelsarrasin toll (Tarn-et-Garonne) on the A62 was still blocked for an indefinite period, between Agen and Montauban.
In Gers, the day before, a strike action had targeted the Danone company, in Villecomtal-sur-Arros; at Isle-Jourdain, the Young Farmers (JA) had walled up the public finance center; in Haute-Garonne, or in Tarn-et-Garonne, supermarkets were visited by members of the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA) to “check the labeling of products, often of foreign origin “.
The announcements of the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, on Wednesday, “go in the direction of farmers”declared Jérôme Bayle, this breeder from Haute-Garonne, behind the motorway blockades on January 18. “We are starting again on positive spirals and on construction. But construction is not done in a day. »
“We want guarantees, a long-term timetable”
The reception is much more mixed from the FNSEA side. “ It’s not up to what it’s supposed to be [Gabriel Attal] had promised a month ago, particularly on the issue of water or phytosanitary products », says Philippe Jougla, its regional president. For this breeder from Tarn “Our demands focused on the absolute urgency of building water reservoirs, there is no announcement to this effect, it’s a scandal! » “This is going to go badly at the Agricultural Show [il ouvre ses portes le 24 février à Paris] »he predicts, even if he welcomes some progress for the treasury, in particular the rapid payments of aid from the common agricultural policy (CAP).
Still in Tarn, Christophe Rieunau, departmental representative of the JA, was, in the fall of 2023, at the origin of the reversal of signs at the entrance to municipalities, a movement which had spread throughout the country . “The Prime Minister provided after-sales service for previous announcements, what we want are guarantees, a long-term timetable”he demands.
If he welcomes a “work carried out on the simplification of standards or administrative tasks”he emphasizes that “what we demand above all is economic justice, particularly with regard to trade laws.” Mirror clauses, new version of the EGalim law, overtransposition of European rules, the trade unionist wants to give the government time to act at European level, “while remaining extremely vigilant and mobilized”, he concludes.
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