Vegetable growers angry against the constraints … – Le Figaro

Vegetable growers angry against the constraints … – Le Figaro

The greengrocers who incendiers two public buildings in Morlaix complain of a highly deteriorated economic environment that complicate tape.

“A peasant revolt, a revolt of the base,” the analysis Agnes Brown, mayor of Morlaix, where two administrative buildings – the Tax and Social Agricultural Mutual – were vandalized Friday night by vegetable growers anger. The vegetable dishes were protesting against the tax and administrative constraints which they say choke in an economy already degraded.

“It is not a fit of anger, said the Councillor AFP . It’s a cold anger, something that matures for weeks, for months on a combination of events: the fall in consumption, overproduction, falling prices, the Russian embargo, payroll ever most damning … [...] Vegetable producers have launched alarms for several months. The state never responded. “

” vegetable growers can not go on “

Yesterday in the day Jean-François Jacob, president of the agricultural society of collective interest of St. Pol de Leon, the first French group of vegetable growers, had renewed these claims. “In this difficult economic climate, vegetable growers can not continue. We heard successively for 20 years of administrative simplification, whenever we see that it is the opposite. “Stop” we are told. The urgency now is to deal with cash flow problems of many producers in Britain. ”

Thierry Merret, president of the county federation of farmers unions in Finistère, “understands” his side the action of these producers. “I support them, he said this morning on France Info. This is because there is a total, tax and social ras-le-bol, and the feeling of being abandoned by the government. There is a real confusion of these producers [who] paid seven cents for a product sold in supermarkets seven euros. This is only the beginning. ”

In the columns of Telegram, a producer of vegetables on the premises justified by the same economic difficulties these violent actions. “I installed since 1985, I have never experienced such a horrible crisis. We work 80 hours a week for just a minimum wage. People may not understand this way of expressing himself. I am involved in this movement. Others have failed to tell their despair. They eventually tie the knot. It was too late. It happened to a farmer in my town last year. ”