The Conf's last outing before the elections took place in Leuchey, at the home of Hippolyte Babouillard, the head of the union list. Around fifty people were able to visit his poultry farm and appreciate his passion for his profession. He talks about it with relish.
The opportunity was also given to him to send a political message for the next six years with “the capture of the House”. Compared to it, the Bastille is nothing!
Hippolyte Babouillard recalls the Conf's desire to have a million farmers in France. “Across Haute-Marne, there are 6,000 instead of the current 2,500 thanks to good guidance, diversification of production and advice from the Chamber and the cessation of industrialization and intensification of exploitation.
Transmissible farms
For the candidate, “the gradual disappearance of farmers is the source of depopulation in the territories. However, small structures like those promoted by the Conf' succeed. He advocates for resilient and transferable farms and the creation of producer stores for direct sales like Multiferm of which he is a member. For him, “it is interesting to work together, in solidarity for sustainable agriculture”. The union's other source of pride is the opening of the new Chaumont departmental slaughterhouse, whose president, Romain Graillot, is on the Conf' list.
-Hippolyte Babouillard specifies that, during the last mandate, the Confédération paysanne held its place in all the commissions to give their opinion, provide information and, for example, defend free-range livestock farming. But its management, in the event of victory, would be to defend all production (pork, market gardening, poultry, etc.) to fully fulfill its public service mission. “We have to serve everyone,” he said.
He is “totally” opposed to the merger of the Chamber of Agriculture of Haute-Marne with Aube. “The current director thinks, sleeps and eats Aube and it is time for us to refocus on Haute-Marne. » Finally, his peasant agriculture project is to give priority to young people in the distribution of land and “not to the expansion of the same”.
Frédéric Thévenin
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