[Article publié le dimanche 17 novembre 2024 à 12h17 et mis à jour à 18h32] Free trade treaty with Mercosur, improved income, food sovereignty… The reasons for agricultural anger are numerous. “ Everyone shares the feeling that the spring demonstrations did not fully yield the hoped-for results, and that the software change that was requested was not made. », testifies Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA, in the columns of La Tribune Sunday.
Agriculture: two out of three promises still without effect in farmyards
All over France, demonstrations have already started. 82 actions were recorded across the country until Tuesday, according to Arnaud Rousseau, notably in front of prefectures or on roundabouts called “ roundabouts of Europe », from our colleagues at BFMTV. La Tribune has identified the municipalities that will be affected by the social movement through an interactive map that can be viewed below.
In Yvelines, a blockage bringing together nearly 300 farmers from Île-de-France is expected late this Sunday afternoon on the RN118 towards Paris near Vélizy-Villacoublay, we can read on the prefecture website. Questioned by our colleagues from RTL, during the program Le Grand Jury, the Minister of the Interior warned that there would be a “ zero tolerance ”, in the event of a blockage.
« If there is a lasting blockage, we will not hesitate to call upon the mobile forces (mobile gendarmes and CRS, Editor’s note),” he underlined.
Specified devices
The government clarified last Friday the terms of the loans to which farmers in difficulty will be able to claim, a pressing request from the trade union organizations which then welcomed the measures while demanding their implementation ” urgent ».
Two systems are intended to be put in place in the form of loans distributed by banks wishing to participate, detailed the Ministry of Agriculture in a press release. According to the ministry, a first system is designed to deal with economic difficulties (climatic or health hazards), in the form of medium-term loans capped at 50,000 euros per farm. Farmers who have lost at least 20% of their turnover in 2024 compared to their historical reference average will be eligible.
A second device will concern the difficulties “ more structural due, for example, to the impact of climate change “. It will take the form of “ long-term consolidation loans (maximum 12 years) », granted by banking establishments and backed by a public guarantee deployed by Bpifrance. The amount of this loan will be capped at 200,000 euros. The guarantee system will be operational at the beginning of 2025. Farmers whose overall debt ratio is greater than 50% will be eligible.
(With AFP)
