Arborists worried in the Hautes-Alpes faced with “always more standards”

– Hautes-Alpes –

Hautes-Alpes arborists mobilized this Thursday morning in front of the Hautes-Alpes prefecture. At the call of the FDSEA 05 and the JA 05, they first met in La Saulce for a snail operation to Gap. Farmers who wanted to delay their concerns about Natura 2000 Zones explains Anne-Marie Gros is co-president of the FDSEA of Hautes-Alpes, “ they represent 300 hectares between the Durance Valley and Buëch. These are areas that were classified 25 years ago. We said that nothing would change in the way of working”

“Today, regulations are tightening. We should no longer use phytosanitary products, we should no longer use pesticides. This is not possible. They have already halved, in the space of six or seven years, the frequency of passage. They practice sustainable agriculture”, A. M Gros

Another point of tension: the maintenance of watercourses and rivers. The agricultural unions FDSEA 05 and JA 05 denounce “ the complexity of legislative and regulatory frameworks regarding the maintenance of ditches, watercourses and canals”. They ask the State to “ take responsibility” to protect the land, we cannot let orchards be flooded, animals be swept away, we cannot let orchards disappear” underlines on Alpes 1 Anne-Marie Gros.

A meeting was to be held at the end of the morning between the unions and the prefect of Hautes-Alpes, Dominique Dufour.

A. Vallauri