Lhe Federation of Young Farmers (FJA) carried out a symbolic action on the roads of Wallonia during the night from Friday to Saturday. “#FJA-J messages have flourished by the hundreds on the roads,” because “the cup is full again,” she said Saturday morning in a press release.
The FJA announced that it had carried out a symbolic action “to remind people that the fight for agriculture recognized and supported at the height of its importance is far from over”.
“Without a rapid response from political decision-makers, actions on the ground will be inevitable,” she warned, as the agricultural sector suffered a year marked by multiple calamities.
Between economic difficulties, administrative overload, the free trade agreement which could soon be finalized between the European Union (EU) and the Mercosur countries, bluetongue and bad harvests linked to bad weather, farmers cannot are no longer able to make ends meet.
“The situation is no longer tenable”
“The situation is no longer tenable on the farms. Walloon family farming is more than ever threatened with death, and this observation takes on its full significance in the light of an implacable statistic: less than 5% of farmers in Wallonia are under the age of 35,” lamented the FJA.
“The tension within the agricultural world is palpable and could very quickly no longer be confined to symbolic actions. »
Farmers from the United Federation of Breeders and Farmers’ Groups (Fugea) and their “allies” have already announced that they will demonstrate next Wednesday in the European Quarter in Brussels to protest against the trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur. Their anger also concerns the poor management of the bluetongue epidemic which has been raging for two months.
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