At the call of the FDSEA, the Young Farmers of Aude and the Union of Winegrowers of Aude, a major mobilization is planned for Saturday November 30 in Carcassonne.
It's from Carcassonne, a town in the Aude prefecture; that the cry of regional viticulture will ring out on Saturday November 30 from 3 p.m. The call for mobilization from the Aude winegrowers' union was relayed by the winegrowers' unions, JA and FDSEA from all the departments of Occitanie. Winegrowers from Hérault, Gard, Pyrénées Orientales, and the western departments of the region are announced.
The route of the demonstration
The decision to organize a demonstration was taken on Tuesday November 19 by the union's board of directors unanimously. The meeting point is set at 3 p.m. in front of the prefecture gardens in Carcassonne. After the speeches of the president of the Aude winegrowers' union, Frédéric Rouanet, that of the FDSEA Jean-Pierre Alaux, the co-president of the JA, Loïc Escourrou, and the president of the Aude breeders' union (Le Selpa), the procession will set off on boulevard Jean-Jaurès, towards the station, will successively take boulevards Omer-Sarraut, Warsaw, Marcou, Barbès before the dislocation at the corner of Pont Neuf and Square Gambetta.
A crisis of unprecedented proportions
One year after the big demonstration in Narbonne, on November 25, 2023, the decision to set out again was taken because, explains Frédéric Rouanet, the president of the Aude winegrowers' union, “the situation is worse. Last year, the winegrowers brought in a small harvest but this year, it is even smaller, because of the merciless climatic hazards. This is the smallest harvest of the century!”
Anger is at its peak because of the price of wine: “We are paid the price that our grandfathers were paid! It is unacceptable! Diesel cost 16 cents, labor was 25 times cheaper and a tractor cost 8,000 francs. Today Today, we are in debt to the tune of 60,000 euros for a tractor. Costs have exploded, and prices are not keeping pace, strangling producers: “What are the traders doing for us? We had a round table with them and we see no improvement”notes Frédéric Rouanet.
The situation is serious: of the 27,461 hectares which will be uprooted, 4,955 will be from Aude. Land, part of which will remain fallow because no alternative without water is possible.
