Anger of farmers: there will be a third wave of demonstrations, on December 9 and 10, warns Arnaud Rousseau

Farmers will go back for a third series of protests, warned this Friday, November 29, the boss of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau. After a first wave of actions last week against Mercosur, and another this week against the standards imposed on farmers, 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”, he said on RMC.

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“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 need that concrete results are 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. EU-Mercosur free trade agreement.

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The Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard is due to receive FNSEA-JA this 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”.