After the Rural Coordination (in Rousset), the FNSEA and the Young Farmers (in Tarascon, Châteaurenard, Avignon, Digne or Salon), the non-unionized “agris” take action, in turn, this Friday, November 22, in Pertuis, from 7 a.m. Their plan? Block access to five supermarkets (Lidl, Aldi, Carrefour, Hyper U and Drive U) as well as the service stations of the last three cities.
“We want to denounce the abuses of mass distribution in terms of marginsdetails Denis Odetto, at the initiative of this movement in the Vaucluse commune, but also the agreements in preparation with Mercosur and the various French or foreign certifications (GlobalGap, High Environmental Value and other quality charters) that are imposed on us, depending on the brands, to be authorized to sell our products in these power centers. 'purchases.”
“We should all be together on the blockages”
If some of these farmers had taken part in the blocking of the Lidl logistics platform, in Rousset, on November 14, alongside the Bouches-du-Rhône Rural Coordination, this movement of independents will operate in solo mode, this time .
“Many farmers are not included. Unions are not the only voice of the agricultural world“, underlines Denis Odetto who does not, however, refrain from participating in an operation set up by a union, as he did on November 14 in Rousset.
“We are all farmers and we are all in the same situation.insists this market gardener based in Pertuis. Besides, we shouldn't even talk about CR, this or that. On the contrary, we should all be together on the blockages. Let there be green flags (FNSEA)yellow (Coordination rurale) or others, we don't care.“
At the time when the agricultural machinery of the “Independents” will block access to the Pertuis supermarkets, the FDSEA and JA 13 will display their colors, around forty kilometers from the south Luberon, at the Canet roundabout, in Meyreuil, where will be conducted “an awareness campaign“with distribution of leaflets.”Traffic will just be slowed down, because we won't bother people“, indicates the head of Young Farmers in this canton, Lucas Proust, in line with recent actions organized by these two unions which will mobilize even more vigorously next week.
River cleaning operation in the Alps, November 23
Rural Coordination will be just as much in the days to come. This Saturday, November 23, from 10 a.m., the sections of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Hautes-Alpes will carry out a cleaning of the Durance, near the commune of Monêtier-Allemont (05) adjoining Claret ( 04).
“Under the pretext of biodiversity, which may be laudable in itself, explains Serge Jousselme, the president of the CR des Hautes-Alpes, groves were allowed to proliferate and today, when there is abundant rainfall, the floods uproot trees which, for years, grew in the bed of the river. This creates jams (obstructions, Editor’s note), ravages banks and the edge of agricultural land. However, as soon as you want to intervene to clean, the OFB (French Biodiversity Office) falls on your back, while half the farmers pay land tax up to the middle of the bed. It's absurd.“His counterpart from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Florent Signoret, doesn’t say otherwise:”The farmer works with nature and knows that it must be controlled to avoid serious damage. Protecting the environment is obviously a good thing, but it's not everything. It should not make us forget certain rational principles.” A real and burning subject of debate.
