Mobilization of farmers: convoy to Strasbourg, filter dams, what should we expect this week?

Less than a year after a historic mobilization and after a summer marked by poor harvests and uoutbreak of emerging animal diseasesagricultural unions brought out the tractors last week. They believe that they have not obtained enough concrete progress in the farmyards, despite government promises. “They will see the concrete things very quickly”nevertheless insisted the Minister of Agriculture this Monday morning on France Inter.

Actions will therefore continue this week against the free trade treaty that the European Union is negotiating with Latin American Mercosur countries and to denounce “obstacles” to production. After symbolic actions claimed in 85 departments, the actions will this time target prefectures or administrative places. A convoy to Strasbourg and filter dams are also on the program. Overview of the actions planned thanks to local radio stations in the France Bleu network.

Tractors heading towards the European Parliament

The farmers of Haute-Saône will leave this Monday in the middle of the afternoon on their tractors towards the European Parliament in Strasbourg to have “explanations” on certain measures voted by Europe and which threaten French agriculture, announced the president of the rural coordination of the department, guest of France Bleu Besançon this Monday morning. The convoy will leave for Strasbourg “vers 16h30/17h”detailed Florian Dirant. Rural Coordination 70 will be “joined by adjacent regions”he said.

“We are going to block the European Parliament”, had already announced, last weekCyril Hoffman, president of the Rural Coordination of Côte-d’Or. Around thirty demonstrators of the Vosges will also get underway this Monday evening. The convoy could cause delays as it moves.

Actions near administrative places

In Haute-Garonnemembers of the FDSEA and Young Farmers will meet on Thursday in front of the main administrative places in Toulouse such as the Regional Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Forestry (Draaf), the French Biodiversity Office or again or from the prefecture. This day will take place without a tractor which will not be the case in the Tarn-et-Garonne. In this department, the FDSEA promises a “dumpster festival” to “vent their anger”. The demonstrators planned to target the premises of the prefecture and the Departmental Directorate of Territories (DDT) early Tuesday evening in Montauban.

Members of the Dordogne Peasant Confederation plan to meet in front of the Chamber of Agriculture on Tuesday for an action at the opening of the last session before the professional elections.

Convoys and filter dams

Around ten tractors and around thirty farmers were already blocking a food logistics center in Brétigny-sur-Orge (Essonne), this Monday morning. Farmers organized a filter barrier in front of the storage center and blocked trucks containing food products of foreign origin. In the Chera snail operation took place on the A20 this Monday morning, between the southern entrance to Vierzon and the Vierzon north toll. The A20 motorway is now cut off to traffic in the Toulouse-Vierzon direction, specifies Bison Futé at 12:30 p.m. The demonstrators set up two filter barriers.

In Dordognethe demonstrators will find themselves with tractors in five different places in Périgueux. The different convoys must then converge towards the prefecture. A five-meter-high fir tree was placed there. The FDSEA and the Young Farmers want to wish “welcome” has the new prefect who takes up these functions this Monday morning.

In Ariègea filter dam with tasting of local products will be set up on Wednesday by farmers in Tarascon-sur-Ariège. During the night, they will station themselves in Saint-Girons to intercept trucks and check the goods they are transporting. In Vendeethe Rural Coordination plans to control “refrigerated trucks that pass through Vendée to see where the meat they transport comes from.

Blockages of purchasing centers

To claim “a better distribution of margins between the moment when the product is purchased from farmers and when it is sold to the consumer”, producers are mobilizing to Alby-sur-Chéran and Rumilly (Haute-Savoie) by blocking the purchasing centers of the two municipalities since Monday morning. In Allierfarmers have been blocking access to the Leclerc group's purchasing center in Avermes since Monday.

In the Deux-SèvresYoung Farmers announce a mobilization this Tuesday on a logistics platform at La Crèche. The union intends to control the goods, to make consumers aware of their origin. In the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, the actions have already started this Monday morning with the blocking of supermarkets in Manosque. Shopping carts were overturned and straw scattered on the ground to denounce the distributors' margins, which they consider abusive.

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