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Faced with the non-attribution of European subsidies, 140 jobs in the Cocagne Haute-Garonne group are threatened. But activities continue.
A few months after strong mobilization in Saint-Gaudens, Muret and Toulouse, and the making of difficult but necessary decisions, the group announces a continuation of its activities into 2025, including at the Ferme de Cléjust in Cazères.
“After immediately informing our public partners of the financial emergency into which this decision plunged us, we worked for a year with them to develop a realistic action plan for maintaining our essential and viable activities,” explains Cocagne. Haute-Garonne During this period, our teams continued their missions despite the uncertainties regarding the continuity of our activities and the maintenance of their jobs.
The group's economic model requiring significant financial needs, it was necessary to make drastic choices, such as stopping its commitment to the organic vegetable division in Villemur-sur-Tarn, and suspending the plant processing activity in Salles. -sur-Garonne and the reduction in operating costs (purchases, salaries, external charges). At the same time, the group recorded some employee departures, and devoted a lot of time to resolving administrative, regulatory and economic problems linked to European financing. “We extend our thanks to those of you who mobilized alongside us during this year 2024, and who through their expressions of sympathy, their technical interventions, their approaches to and within institutions and their funding made it possible to maintain in our department a significant number of integration pathways, support-training services for the most vulnerable and actions in favor of the agricultural and food transition. We will therefore continue our work with exceptionally significant public subsidies and private support (individual donors, corporate partners and family foundations).”
Vigilance remains essential and the representatives of Cocagne Haute-Garonne are renewing their call for volunteers as well as any technical or financial support.
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