Young Farmers blocked a port in Aude on Wednesday morning while members of the Rural Coordination continued to block access to a Danone site, in Gers, with tractors and fertilizers, during a new day of mobilization agricultural.
In Villecomtal-sur-Arros (Gers), around ten agricultural machines are still blocking the entrance to the Danone production site on Wednesday, where farmers have been taking turns since late Tuesday afternoon, noted a photographer from the 'AFP.
Four foreign trucks filled with dairy products, therefore perishable, have been blocked since Tuesday evening, we learned from the staff and the CR on site.
A meeting is to be held on Wednesday afternoon between the demonstrators and two national executives from the Danone group who came to discuss with them, according to the same sources.
For their part, the Young Farmers of Aude blocked the port of Port-la-Nouvelle for several hours on Wednesday morning to demand more economic support, noted an AFP photographer.
Around fifty members of this union, the majority within the alliance with the National Federation of Farmers' Unions (FNSEA), came with around ten tractors and blocked access to this port located around fifty kilometers north of Perpignan.
These farmers from Aude, mainly wine growers, met at dawn to prevent trucks from leaving and entering the site, the third French port on the Mediterranean, where an oil depot is located.
“We are in a department where we are experiencing a terrible drought, we are asking for crop insurance to be remodeled and an emergency fund to get through the year, because we are making loans, loans, loans, but when we already has a lot, it’s complicated,” Loïc Escourrou, president of the Young Farmers of Aude union, explained to AFP.
– “Genevard only lies” –
“Genevard only lies”, they wrote on the asphalt, in reference to the Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard.
The blockade was lifted at midday, before a major mobilization of the wine world announced in Carcassonne on Saturday.
In Haute-Garonne, members of the FDSEA31 blocked a roundabout in Beauzelle, on the outskirts of Toulouse, where they built “a mountain of fed up” with bales of straw, according to Axel Tran Van, member of the union's board of directors.
In Nantes, around fifty tractors were parked in the middle of the day on Wednesday in front of the prefecture, some carrying banners proclaiming “Don't break my dream of taking over”, “No country without peasants” or “Little one dreams of it, adult we're dying.”
A concrete block wall was erected around midday in front of the entrance to the prefecture.
“We are here to mark the occasion. We denounce the excess of administration in everything we do, the maintenance of ditches, the storage of water. (…) We are made promises but nothing is moving forward,” said Mathieu Bouteiller, 34, member of the Young Farmers in Sainte-Pazanne (Loire-Atlantique), which produces milk, cereals and beef.
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