In the Gard, angry farmers launch Operation Owl this Monday evening

Almost a year ago, farmers occupied the A9 motorway for ten days to warn of the serious crisis in which they were stuck. Under pressure, the State ended up letting go of aid. “We have had aid for non-road diesel or grubbing-up bonuses but we are far from the mark”says David Sève, the leader of the FDSEA in Gard who is going back into battle this Monday, like almost everywhere in France where lights will be lit. “hazard lights”.

Filtering in Saint-Cézaire

In the Gard where the FDSEA likes code names, it will therefore be Operation Chouette, which will begin this Monday at nightfall, to remind “the anger and despair of the agricultural world towards the authorities”, explains David Sève. Of the 120 national demands, he retains four “essential and vital” : taking into account agricultural calamities, tax exemption for grubbing-up premiums, aid to farmers most in difficulty and constraints on phytosanitary measures. Without forgetting the vaccines for sheep fever and Mercosur.

This Monday evening, they will undoubtedly light a fire, with tires and stumps, at the Saint-Cézaire roundabout where they will filter the trucks which supply the power stations to see where the products come from. And they promise shock action but “without destruction or penalizing the population. Our message is “If we don’t collect, then the State doesn’t collect either!”concludes the president of the FDSEA du Gard.