Young farmers from Finistère are mobilizing for renewal on farms

More than ten years after its launch, what role does this installation forum, organized by the Young Farmers of Finistère, play in the necessary need to renew the agricultural workforce?

Yann Le Gac (president of JA-29): This forum allows a first contact between students in an agricultural course

and professional organizations in the sector. Not only representatives of different agricultural professions and businesses but also banks or accounting centers. Young people, more or less advanced in their thoughts, can better anticipate their professional project.

Regarding your encouragement of the installation of young people at the heads of agricultural businesses put up for sale, how can we avoid competition from already active operators who want to seize the opportunity to expand?

The new regional master plan for agricultural operations is well done since it gives priority to young people over buyouts. But as with three departures, there is only one candidate for takeover, this inevitably results in expansions. Especially since today, many young people prefer to become employees, with vacations and a less restrictive lifestyle, rather than taking the risk, straight away, of a recovery.

Do the successive crises in the agricultural world, the demonstrations and demands reflecting fed up, not have a repulsive and counterproductive effect on your efforts to be attractive?

It remains a profession of passion. We are mobilizing against red tape. It continues to weigh. Including installation elsewhere. It takes between two and a half and three years of process before starting. And gather a budget of €15,000 to €20,000. It is also to remove all these brakes that we are going to put a layer back on.