This Wednesday morning, demonstrators blocked access to the regional purchasing and supply center for Leclerc stores in the southeast.
Several dozen farmers have been blocking a major logistics platform of the Leclerc group in Luc en Provence (Var) since Wednesday morning at the call of the Peasant Confederation, which is demanding guaranteed minimum prices and the end of free trade agreements to ensure income. worthy for the farmers. Arriving shortly before 5 a.m., the demonstrators, from Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Vaucluse, blocked access to the Lecasud power plant's freight platform with tractors, trucks and bales of straw, observed journalists from the 'AFP on site. “EVERY PEASANT DESERVES AN INCOME”proclaims a banner hung from a tractor.
Lecasud is the regional purchasing and supply center for Leclerc stores in the south-east, with its headquarters in Luc en Provence. It supplies more than a hundred stores and “drives” of the Leclerc group in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region, according to information published on its site. This action by the Confédération paysanne, the third agricultural union in France, occurs in the middle of the campaign for the elections to the chambers of agriculture which will be held from January 15 to 31.
Agricultural mobilization continues
Since last winter's crisis, agricultural unions have maintained their mobilization to demand a more dignified income, an end to unfair competition from low-cost imported foods, less “paperwork” and “identical standards” for all European producers.
If the FNSEA, the first union in the sector, and the Rural Coordination, second, agree to demand access to pesticides currently banned in France but authorized by the EU, defending “means of production”the Peasant Confederation pleads for a “fair income” through increased state support for the agro-ecological transition. In 2019, the Peasant Confederation won only one vote out of 101, in Mayotte, where the vote was postponed after the devastating passage of Cyclone Chido. During the last election in 2019, less than one in two farmers voted.
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