a “punching action” in the Channel

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A sixty farmers and para-agricultural employees or entrepreneurs answered this Sunday November 24, 2024 at the call of Yannick Bodin, newly elected president of the Rural coordination of La Manche.

Shortly before 10 p.m., they gathered at the Saint-Quentin-sur-le-Homme roundabout, near Avranches and the RN175, for a “ punch action ».

With tractors and “full trailers”, “our objectives are the sub-prefecture, the tax center, a radar, the MSA, the entry of deliveries from the E.Leclerc center and the filtering of refrigerated trucks”.

Several demands

The union calls for the abandonment of the free trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries. He also wants to “impose the government to cease all environmental bidding war and the gradual elimination of phytosanitary inputs putting us in unfair competition with imported products.

Rural Coordination has been calling for a “ social VAT on imported products. As a fourth demand, she wants a “moratorium on Ukrainian imports”.

After the action of the radars brought to the Corniche road in Barneville-Carteret last Monday evening, the FDSEA and the JA de la Manche have not yet scheduled another mobilization this week.

Their counterparts from nearly thirty French departments have already announced “a second wave from November 26 to 28”. For its part, the Manche Peasant Confederation will take action on Thursday, November 28 at the E.Leclerc d'Agneaux for “a unprecedented mobilization and full of surprises », Announces the union.

Remember that the Chambers of Agriculture elections will take place in January 2025.

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