Ten months after the major demonstrations, Gard farmers are back in action.
Operation Alaska. The tone was set by the Gard agricultural unions. A first meeting with the DDTM for a punchy action before the 6 a.m. meeting at the Chamber of Agriculture to unify the processions and prepare for the other actions of the day.
The arrival of tractors in front of the Chamber of Agriculture after a visit to the DDTM (Photo Anthony Maurin)
Last point before departure, in the courtyard of the Gard Chamber of Agriculture in Nîmes (Photo Anthony Maurin)
Why are the farmers protesting? “ To, once again, be heard… » explains David Sève, head of the FDSEA in Gard. Indeed, the structural measures requested by farmers ten months ago have still not been taken into account. Mercosur was simply the straw that broke the camel's back.
« Today, the difficulties are already there and we do not yet have Mercosur… Let's first solve the four problems we encounter in Gard! »
Within the walls of the Nîmes Payment Services Agency, farmers have left signs for exits from Gard towns (Photo Anthony Maurin)
The Payment Services Agency during the agricultural event (Photo Anthony Maurin)
The ASP, a target of the day for Gard farmers (Photo Anthony Maurin)
In front of the ASP entrance to Arche Bötti (Photo Anthony Maurin)
In front of the ASP MSA (Photo Anthony Maurin)
Farmers want tax exemption and desocialization of aid given for grubbing up. This would prevent people who are struggling from giving the majority of this money to the State.
A review of the agricultural disaster system is also requested by the Gard unions. Too disadvantageous, farmers no longer take out insurance. The demonstrators are demanding temporary measures to get through the crisis. Finally, last of the four points, farmers want an end to the removal of phytosanitary products. They agree with this last point, but the crops only grow once and they lose them too regularly. “ We don't work for Bayer but no solution has been found, we have to start with research and then, when we have a replacement solution, we stop these products! »
On the walls of the MSA, the discomfort of local farmers (Photo Anthony Maurin)
The MSA walled with concrete blocks and cement (Photo Anthony Maurin)
We bring concrete blocks and cement to wall the entrance to the MSA of Nîmes (Photo Anthony Maurin)
In front of the MSA in Nîmes (Photo Anthony Maurin)
The ring road, Boulevard Salvador Allende, in Nîmes, was blocked for a few hours (Photo Anthony Maurin)
The MSA is in the sights of farmers (Photo Anthony Maurin)
Firefighters were watching over fires lit in front of the MSA in Nîmes (Photo Anthony Maurin)
Fire and slurry in front of the MSA in Nîmes (Photo Anthony Maurin)
In front of the MSA, the Ocean teams wonder how they are going to clean everything in record time (Photo Anthony Maurin)
So, after a first action at the DDTM for part of the procession which arrived from La Calmette in order to join the rest of the troop waiting at the Chamber of Agriculture, it is time to pass to the Payment Services Agency to undergo the wrath of the demonstrators.
The calm before the mini agricultural storm. The employees evacuated just before the arrival of the farmers (Photo Anthony Maurin)
In his place! (Photo Anthony Maurin)
Farmers in front of the Crédit Agricole headquarters in Nîmes (Photo Anthony Maurin)
A small fireworks display is being prepared (Photo Anthony Maurin)
Plumes of smoke in the Nîmes sky over Crédit Agricole (Photo Anthony Maurin)
In the sky, the smoke from the Nîmes headquarters of Crédit Agricole (Photo Anthony Maurin)
In front of the entrance to Crédit Agricole du Mas Cheylon (Photo Anthony Maurin)
Close to a transformer, the police hope that the fire will not go any further in front of the Crédit Agricole (Photo Anthony Maurin)
The day has not yet dawned and the Nîmes ring road is already blocked. After the ASP, the Mutuelle Sociale Agricole, two roundabouts away. The ring road is once again blocked and the intensity of the demonstration increases a notch. Afterwards ? It is the turn of the Crédit Agricole headquarters in Nîmes (Mas Cheylon) to see the tractors arrive. The building has been evacuated, the first fires are set up and the plume of smoke rises far into the blue sky. Last step with the Grand Frais logistics platform, SudLog, Mitra zone between Garons and Saint-Gilles. Here, a delegation is received to discuss the problems encountered by farmers, but the latter agreed that “ this platform is not the worst, some of us work with eu and are happy with it. »
Gard agriculture is in dire straits.
The fight continues for Gard agriculture (Photo Anthony Maurin)
The entrance to the Mitra area when arriving from Garons. The Grand Frais logistics platform on the right (Photo Anthony Maurin)
Around 30 gendarmes from the Nîmes group were in front of the Grand Frais platform to avoid overflows (Photo Anthony Maurin)
End of the operation in front of the Grand Frais logistics platform (Photo Anthony Maurin)
In front of the main entrance to the Grand Frais logistics platform (Photo Anthony Maurin)
Farmers dump some waste in front of the Grand Frais logistics platform in the Mitra zone (Photo Anthony Maurin)
The Grand Frais logistics platform in the Mitra zone was impacted by the visit of farmers (Photo Anthony Maurin)
The delegation received by the managers of the Grand Frais logistics platform in the Mitra zone. When they left, the farmers admitted that Grand Frais was playing the game and that the brand was far from being the worst. Too bad not to have sent a delegation before blocking the entrances… (Photo Anthony Maurin)
The tension falls on the roundabout in the Mitra zone, it is noon and there are wheelbarrows (Photo Anthony Maurin)
