Anger of farmers: tractors soon to return to the streets, FNSEA calls for new mobilizations on December 9 and 10 “everywhere in France”

The FNSEA plans to mobilize farmers again, “all over France”, on December 9 and 10 around the theme of sector income, Arnaud Rousseau, the president of the majority agricultural union, said on Friday. This new wave of actions will be “around income, around the relationship with the price of our products, particularly in the context of the start of commercial relations, of negotiation with distributors. And therefore we will be in action”, said -he said on RMC. “We will be on Monday and Tuesday of that week (December 9 and 10, Editor's note), with the objective that we can conclude our cycle (of demonstrations) with a meeting with the Prime Minister (…) We needs concrete results to be achieved,” he added.

After their historic mobilization at the start of the year, the agricultural unions launched a new protest movement in mid-November, in a dispersed manner but with in common the demand for a better income and opposition to the draft agreement of EU-Mercosur free trade. The FNSEA, allied with the Young Farmers (JA), organized its mobilization in three stages, devoted first to Mercosur, then this week to the subject of standards and administrative “simplification”, before moving on to income in ten days. .

The Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard is due to receive FNSEA-JA on Friday, then Modef and Rural Coordination, to “advance on concrete measures which aim to simplify the daily lives” of farmers, according to the ministry. The Peasant Confederation, which also calls for better income and administrative simplifications without however contesting the standards and their control, will be received “in the coming days”.