As they did last week in Tulle, in front of the Corrèze prefecture hotel, it is around a false coffin, made of wrapping film and bearing the inscription “The death of family peasants” , that Modef representatives had arranged to meet in Limoges this Thursday, November 14 afternoon.
“We are here to present our demands again since last winter, we have been taken for a ride,” said Christian Reigue, president of Modef Haute-Vienne. Nothing really materialized apart from a small detail on the GNR (non-road diesel, editor’s note)but that’s anecdotal. Now we have to come to the concrete question: what matters is the income of the peasants. »
And the president of Modef Haute-Vienne recalled that “since 1959 (year of creation of Modef)we say: to maintain family farming, we need guaranteed floor prices.”
“There is still no income,” insisted Sophie Bezeau, director of Modef national. And with the context we know, the climatic hazards, the health hazards, this further accentuates the anger of the agricultural world. »
“This request for income is legitimate, it must be responded to”
And as if that were not enough, the “signals are not good” to use the expression of Christian Reigue obviously evoking the question of Mercosur. “Free competition is killing family farming,” he confided. That's why we brought this fake coffin. What we are saying to the State today, and to the forces of money, is: “let’s be careful”. There is a need for farmers to be listened to and this demand for income is legitimate, it must be responded to. »
A delegation of three people was received at the prefecture at around 4 p.m. “We listened to our proposals, they were noted, we were told that they were going to be transmitted but nothing more,” explained Christian Reigue after the interview. There is dissatisfaction with the fact that we have had no response to our requests. »
Jean-Adrien Truchassou
