Anger of farmers: why Modef is demanding prices guaranteed by the State

What does it matter if Michel Barnier's government can be censored. What does it matter if the portfolio of the Ministry of Agriculture can be redistributed. For the Movement for the Defense of Family Farmers (Modef), the concern is not so much to know the identity of their potential future interlocutors as to call for the urgent establishment of sales prices for their productions guaranteed by the State. “At the opening of the Agricultural Show in February, the President of the Republic promised the launch of floor prices. But it's December and still nothing », Notes Didier Gadea, secretary general of Modef.

Apply multiplier coefficients

While the professional agricultural elections will take place from January 15 to 31, 2025, representatives of the union defending the peasantry marked the start of the electoral campaign this Tuesday, December 3 at the Chamber of Agriculture of Gard (Nîmes). Faced with harvests at their lowest, herds victims of epidemics and the threats of a free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, trade unionists have warned of the cash flow problems of producers.

“Today we face many imponderables which add to the difficulties of paying farmers. Even the price of energy is a concern for us. As soon as there is an explosion in prices, the entire agricultural chain suffers”alerts the secretary general.

Thus, failing to be able to revise the functioning of the agricultural system, through an overhaul of aid from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the union relies on the State to set up a price of ” reference “ which would set the production costs of farmers as well as the establishment of a multiplier coefficient: this would be applied between the purchase price and the sale price of agricultural products. “In the absence of these two measures, we will disappear, Didier Gadea. The state must act now. »