Arnaud Rousseau traveled to Gouzon in Creuse to defend the colors of the FNSEA in the next elections to the departmental chamber of agriculture. The first agricultural union in France is challenged by Rural Coordination during the January election.
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Farmers have until January 31 to nominate their representatives in the chambers of agriculture. The election campaign is in full swing. The leading agricultural union in France with more than 200,000 members, the FNSEA intends to maintain its leading position.
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Its number one, Arnaud Rousseau, was traveling in Creuse to Gouzon, this Thursday, January 16, 2025. A department acquired by the FNSEA and the Young Farmers, but which is challenged by the Rural Coordination. The agricultural union, leader of the farmers' revolt, hopes to win departments in these elections. For the president of the FNSEA:
In an election, there are competitors, we are challenged, in the end, it is up to the farmers to decide.
Arnaud RousseauPresident of the FNSEA
The number one of the FNSEA Arnaud Rousseau visits Gouzon in the Creuse
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-Arnaud Rousseau came to meet the farmers. He refutes the accusation made by the CR of being distant from the concerns of the Creuse peasants. For this cereal farmer, agriculture is plural and diverse, depending on the territory: “In Brittany or in the mountain areas, it's not the same! Our productions are different, but at the FNSEA, we represent all productions, there is no small and large agriculture!”
For the members of the Rural Coordination, Arnaud Rousseau is far from the concerns of the farmers of Creuse, the president of the FNSEA denies this.
We accept our difference, our distance is a feeling, not a reality.
Arnaud RousseauPresident of the FNSEA
Arnaud Rousseau of the FNSEA in the electoral campaign for the elections of the chambers of agriculture
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A willingness to undertake
The FNSEA program is based around this desire to undertake and build a future. A speech relayed by the outgoing president of the FDSEA of Creuse, Pascal Lerousseau: “we must defend the right to do business in our territory and facilitate the transfer of farms as well as the installation of new farmers.”
For his detractors, Arnaud Rousseau, a cereal grower at the head of a 700 hectare farm in Île-de-France, has more of a business manager profile than a farmer. He also sits on the board of directors of around fifteen companies and heads the multinational Avril (industrial and financial group in the vegetable oils and proteins sector). “Regarding Avril, I have said it hundreds of times, it is a company which does not pay dividends and which reinvests everything, if it bothers some people, we take responsibility for taking care of industrial tools to ensure that the value comes down to the farms, so that everyone can earn their living.”
Farmers can vote to elect their representatives, either online or by mail. The Minister of Agriculture has set the closing date for the poll at midnight on January 31, 2025.
Story with Cécile Descubes
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