New symbolic action by angry farmers, this Wednesday, November 27, 2024 in Mayenne. Around twenty members of the FDSEA (Departmental Federation of Farmers' Unions) and Young Farmers gathered on a farm in Saint-Germain-le-Guillaume to denounce the “administrative burden”.
After the covering of municipal signs and then the blocking of the Europe Bridge in Laval, “this week, we are entering the third phase of demands: administrative simplification, and standards in general, which we have been asking for for years”explains Mickaël Guilloux, secretary general of the FDSEA.
“Let us do our job”
To illustrate their claim, dairy farmer Samuel Gouel operated a mechanical shovel to clean out the stream which borders one of his plots. “In the past, maintenance was done every year with a shovel and by hand by our grandparentssays the farmer. We are asked to be allowed to do our work peacefully. »
The farmers present say they fear controls from the French Biodiversity Office and potential fines if their shoveling does not respect the fair “depth of the watercourse or width of the riparian forest”. They claim the “common peasant sense”. According to Mickaël Guilloux, “the regulations prevent (them) from maintaining the ditches” and watercourses.
