« It'll go away, that's for sure. » Didier Tranchant, president of the Indre-et-Loire Rural Coordination, sets the tone. This Monday, November 18, 2024, the call for national mobilization begins, launched by the FNSEA agricultural union, to protest against the signing of the trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur. As for the Touraine unions, mobilizations are announced.
« We're not going to start on Monday. The farmers are still in the fields. Rain is forecast from Tuesday. So, from Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on the geographic sectors, actions will be carried out in Indre-et-Loire »announces Nicolas Sterlin, president of the FNSEA Centre-Val de Loire. The union mentions operations of the type “demonstrations and blocking points”.
A call which will be followed by the Young Farmers 37 union. “The goal is to be heard, not to annoy residents”shares Perrine Delaunay, vice-president of JA 37. Operations that could last. “The work in the fields will end. If we have to mobilize regularly, we will”she shares.
“We have a lot of demands”
For its part, Rural Coordination 37 intends to organize itself in the coming days. “It’ll go away, that’s for sure. Our national congress arrives on Wednesday, we will get into battle gear from there”confides Didier Tranchant, president of the union in Indre-et-Loire.
A mobilization relaunched with the free trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries, but which is bringing back widespread anger. « We have a lot of demands. We remain hungry compared to last January. Work had been started with the Attal government, but everything stopped with the dissolution »explains Nicolas Sterlin.
For the moment, all the farmers in the department are above all focused on their harvests, which have been damaged this year by difficult weather. Once these are completed, farmers intend to mobilize.
