The Morbihan Chamber of Agriculture held the last session of the mandate this Thursday, November 21. She voted for a deliberation relating to the health context of the poultry sector, affected by influenza. Morbihan, in recent months, has experienced several cases in Évellys, Moréac and Noyal-Muzillac.
The chamber demands compensation for breeders commensurate with their direct and indirect economic losses and demands a revision of the compensation scales taking into account the inflation observed in the rate of raw materials and taking into account the provisions taken during the epidemic of 2021-2022, i.e. 100% of losses covered. The chamber wants compensation to also concern breeders in protection and regulated zones whose henhouses have not been filled or have suffered filling gaps. “In 2021-2022, 80 breeders were compensated to the tune of 1.5 million euros and 78 were compensated in 2022-2023, to the tune of 953,000 euros,” indicated Pascal Bolot, prefect of Morbihan.
Threat to ruminants
The chamber is also alarmed by the advance of diseases affecting ruminants. “We must vaccinate now,” insists Laurent Kerlir, president of the Chamber of Agriculture. Epizootic hemorrhagic disease is present in Morbihan but is not evolving too much. Bluetongue is in Mayenne and could arrive in Brittany, with a danger for sheep and goats, exposed to a mortality risk of 50%.
Avian influenza is not the only problem. The Morbihan agricultural profession is facing, this year, difficult weather conditions making the planting and harvesting of cereals complicated, particularly for grain corn, which is too wet: “To avoid drying costs, farmers are postponing the harvest, which pushes back the sowing of cereals,” worries Laurent Kerlir.
