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Jean-Philippe Massieu
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Nov 18 2024 at 6:47 am
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The possible signing of the free trade treaty with the Mercosur countries during the G20 summit ces November 18 and 19, 2024 revive it agricultural anger throughout France. All agricultural unions call again for actionas was the case at thefall 2023 and in January 2024.
Movement is necessary!
How will this come to fruition in the Channel? Radars were covered by the Manche Rural Coordination in the south of the department during the night of November 10 to 11.
Their counterparts from other departments, particularly in the South-West where they had already been the most virulent at the start of the year, plan to demonstrate in front of the prefectures on Tuesday and block food freight on Wednesday while their congress will be held at Futuroscope.
“It’s going to start slowly”
The FNSEA and Young Farmers, at the national level, are also calling for actions this week. In our department, two first actions this Monday should not impact the population (read below).
FDSEA and JA de la Manche in action this Monday
The FDSEA and JA unions in La Manche will join this Monday in the call for mobilization of their national entities. As on September 4 in Feugères, FDSEA and JA have firstly planned a new action of cleaning watercourses, this time in Sénoville, near Barneville-Carteret, in the presence of elected officials, local stakeholders and representatives of state services. They now want “concrete” on this “drastic administrative simplification on the regulation of waterways, ditches and canals, but also on hedges, meadows, national and regional nitrate action programs (PAN and PAR ), wetlands, etc.”
But on Saturday evening, the two unions added a second meeting, at 9 p.m. this Monday on the Corniche road in Barneville-Carteret, to “say no to Mercosur”. They are “firmly opposed to the opening of the doors to 99,000 tonnes of beef, to 180,000 tonnes of poultry meat, to the equivalent of 3.4 million tonnes of corn, to 180,000 tonnes of sugar ( i.e. the production of a French sugar factory), to 8.2 Mhl of biofuels (i.e. half of French production)… All produced in unacceptable conditions: growth activators, lack of traceability, active phytosanitary substances banned in France, some for more than 20 years, lack of social rights, deforestation.” There will perhaps be an action at the port of Cherbourg on Thursday evening and others which could arise over the days.
“It will start slowly,” said Pascal Férey, president of the Manche Chamber of Agriculture, which will bow out next March.
Former charismatic union leader of Young Farmers and then of the FNSEA at the departmental, regional and national levels for 45 years, he explains it “for two reasons: the Manche agricultural economy in 2024 is rather prosperous; the climatic conditions of 1is semester were disgusting (sic) but those of the 2e semester are good. »
Like last year, it will rise to a crescendo. Apart from two or three promises like the GNR, the other subjects are at a standstill. We need the relaunch of the agricultural orientation law for the installation. We need to bury Mercosur. We need real simplification. We're not going to ask for money, that's not in keeping with the times.
Cherbourg port blocked?
He is also exasperated by senior civil servants who postponed until 2028 the implementation of the calculation of agricultural pensions over the best 25 years “while the Chassaigne law was adopted unanimously in the national assembly in June 2023. C is unacceptable. »
The National Peasant Confederation also announces mobilizations against Mercosur this Monday and Tuesday in Morbihan and Drôme. “The situation of farmers, on the eve of new mobilizations, requires structural responses allowing farmers to make a living from their profession while facing economic, climatic, health crises, etc., starting with the prices paid to producers, to continue producing on our territory and thus ensure our food sovereignty,” the national entities of the FNSEA and Young Farmers unions communicated on Friday evening, revealing a table of their actions in almost all French departments. The port of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin could be a place of blockage on Thursday.
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