The Federation of Young Farmers (FJA) carried out a symbolic action on the roads of Wallonia during the night from Friday to Saturday. “#FJA-J messages flourished by the hundreds on the roads“, car “the cup is full again“, she said this Saturday morning in a press release.
The FJA announced that it had carried out a symbolic action “to remind us that the fight for agriculture recognized and supported worthy of its importance is far from over“. “Without a rapid response from political decision-makers, actions on the ground will be inevitable“, she warned, while the agricultural sector suffered a year marked by multiple calamities.
Between economic difficulties, administrative overload, the free trade agreement which could soon be finalized between the European Union (EU) and the Mercosur countries, bluetongue and bad harvests linked to bad weather, farmers cannot are no longer able to make ends meet. “The situation is no longer tenable on farms. Walloon family farming is more than ever threatened with death, and this observation takes on its full significance in the light of a relentless statistic: less than 5% of farmers in Wallonia are under 35 years old.“, lamented the FJA.
“The tension within the agricultural world is palpable and could very quickly no longer be confined to symbolic actions.“Farmers from the United Federation of Breeders and Farmers Groups (Fugea) and their”allies” have already announced that they will demonstrate next Wednesday in the European district of Brussels to protest against the trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur. Their anger also relates to the poor management of the bluetongue epidemic which has been raging since two months.
FJA farmers action Walloon roads
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