The authorities introduced fourteen extra measures in favor of agriculture on Saturday, saying it needed to strengthen French meals sovereignty and reply to the calls for of the sector.
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The authorities made public “additional” measures in favor of farmers on Saturday April 27, within the hope of ending for good the disaster which induced distinctive blockages initially of the yr and continues to smolder amongst farmers.
Among these measures are the promised presentation “at the beginning of May” of the ultimate model of the Ecophyto pesticide discount plan, placed on maintain because of the agricultural disaster, new money move help for farms, the acceleration of 100 manufacturing initiatives. water storage or irrigation, and an help plan for 3 departments hit by climate crises (Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Hérault).
The authorities additionally confirms that the agricultural pension reform, the technical implementation of which was debated, will apply in 2026.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is predicted on Saturday together with his minister Marc Fesneau in Manche in Pirou the place he’ll go to a “whelk fair” after which a market backyard.
“These additional measures, in addition to the 67 measures that I announced on January 26, demonstrate our determination to meet the needs of our farmers,” mentioned Gabriel Attal in a press launch, updating the preliminary depend of 62 commitments.
Whatever their precise quantity and their state of progress, these measures goal to place an finish to the historic agricultural disaster of this winter, which continued after the mobilizations organized all through France in January-February – till the Salon de agriculture the place the top of state was extensively booed.
Examination of the agricultural orientation invoice
They “really make it possible to arrive at a global response to the concerns expressed by farmers and to enter a phase which is no longer that of mobilization”, underlines a authorities supply.
Even if a possible assembly between agricultural unions and Emmanuel Macron “will depend a lot on the reaction of the different unions to this new package”, we add.
Some agricultural unions are speaking a few doable assembly with the president on May 2, not confirmed at this stage by the Élysée.
The deputies should additionally look at on Monday based on Matignon the agricultural orientation invoice, revised after the disaster. With topics equivalent to coaching, hedges or the revision of the size of penalties within the occasion of injury to nature, it goals to speed up the arrival of recent generations of farmers, relieved of sure environmental constraints.
Gabriel Attal obtained on a number of events the agricultural unions who, on March 19, had offered to him 5 “blocks” of priorities which involved breeding, water storage and pesticides, “competitiveness”, treasury and agricultural retirements.
Government and farmers have “converged on a new strategy” of the Ecophyto 2030 plan which can take up the federal government's commitments: to simplify it and now be primarily based on a European indicator, as a substitute of the French used till now.
This change in methodology is denounced by a number of NGOs who criticize the European indicator for much less clearly differentiating the harmfulness of pesticides.
The “strategic council”, a obligatory analysis of the phytosanitary practices of every farm, can be “removed in its current form” and the federal government undertakes to work on a “reformed council”.
“Support” plan in a number of departments
For farmers' money move, the general public funding financial institution BPI France will present new financing of a minimum of 100 million euros within the type of private money loans (as much as 75,000 euros) or ensures for financial institution loans non-public.
The authorities additionally plans to extend the speed of property tax aid on undeveloped properties within the occasion of a local weather or well being catastrophe.
In the long term, the federal government plans to launch a “support” plan for farmers within the Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude and Hérault, notably affected by drought, frost or floods, which can be outfitted with 50 million euros for initiatives to adapt to local weather change and develop native sectors.
The authorities has additionally dedicated to accelerating 50 agricultural water storage or irrigation initiatives by June, and 50 others by the tip of 2024. Types of initiatives extremely contested by environmental associations.
The authorities lastly confirmed the implementation of the agricultural pension reform, the calculation methodology of which was debated, “from 2026” on the 25 finest years of profession.
With AFP
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