Stéphane Le Foll has unveiled an emergency plan to support farmers in difficulty. There will be a “restructuring of all the debts of farmers in difficult circumstances,” said Minister of Agriculture who said they also witness a “increase the load relief fund (CAF) to € 50 million “. In all, the state will allocate 600 million euros for all of the emergency plan, and Francois Hollande will meet Thursday morning in Dijon leaders of agricultural organizations.
The BPI will guarantee up to € 500 million bank credit cash to livestock sector companies to meet all their needs. Furthermore, the emergency plan also proposes measures to cash MSA (Agricultural Social Security), tax payment deadline deferral on income, prepayment VAT, exemption from property taxes.
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As a sign of appeasement, the president of the FDSEA Calvados (Departmental Federation of Farmers’ Unions) Jean-Yves Heurtin, called Wednesday afternoon to lift the movement of pastoralists around Caen and proposed to “test the Minister in his commitments” , after three days of blocking the device from low-Norman capital. Similarly, Xavier Beulin, president of the FNSEA, estimated that “the strong mobilization for several weeks now [...], the statements and pronouncements of the Head of State positions, commitment Prime Minister, the work of the Ombudsman [trade relations], [and announcements Wednesday, Ed], all going in the right direction “. He had warned earlier on France Info, he waited “a little more than scoops (…) but really a medium-long term plan with goals, objectives,” .
The main agricultural organization warned, however, that the issues of prices paid to cattle and pigs, and debt remained those on which action was needed in the short term, so that long term there is the issue of contracts between players in the sector.
maintained locks
After about Jean-Yves Heurtin, tractors began to pull over to the side of the road, passing lorries which for some were blocked since Monday morning, while another roadblock was still in place on the western outskirts of the city , towards Rennes, according to AFP. In Normandy, the three major suspension bridges to cross the Seine between Rouen and the estuary (bridges of Normandy, Tancarville and Brotonne) were closed to traffic.
& gt; In Britain: in Saint-Malo, farmers who blocked since Tuesday the main access to the most visited city in the region, should work together from 17h to decide what action to take movement. In Finistère, breeders have left the great bridge of Iroise in Brest, they occupied since Tuesday. However, other barriers are still in place in Quimper and Morlaix
& gt; Central East. breeders Auvergne and Rhone Alps , disappointed, will block access to Lyon from Wednesday evening and those of Clermont-Ferrand Thursday morning. The breeders of the departments of Rhône-Alpes have agreed to block at the end of the day all strategic highway access points to Lyon, did was learned from the local branches of the FNSEA and Young Farmers. In Clermont-Ferrand, blocking five city entry points will be Thursday morning, according to JA and FDSEA of Puy-de-Dôme.
& gt ; North: in the direction Paris-Lille, traffic on the A1 was restored from the mid-morning. The situation should return to normal “late night” , as CRICRs North. In Picardy, the latest large-scale actions were lifted
& gt; Central West . The filter dams introduced Wednesday by a hundred Farmers on the access roads to the Chambord castle was raised around 16h. In Loire-Atlantique, where no blocking was held on Wednesday, the actions planned Thursday morning following a word of national order calling for target processors are “completely maintained” to continue “pressure” , according to the president of JA department, Charles Guerlais. In Vendée, several dams were raised earlier this afternoon, but were kept on the outskirts of Challans, before two large areas, and an exit to the A83 motorway, according to the FDSEA. At the toll station of Boufféré, farmers blocked the Intermarché trucks and distributed the goods not produced in France motorists, according to an AFP photographer.
A total of 700 Vendée farmers participated in these actions, according to the FDSEA.
Sarkozy takes on the bandwagon of peasant anger
Nicolas Sarkozy has seized Wednesday peasant anger to attack the government in a long statement in which he accused the government of his successor, Francois Hollande, to not have “taken the full measure” of this crisis.
“Without the strong mobilization of farmers, the government would not have this late this morning and rushed emergency plan. Too much time has been lost “ writes Nicolas Sarkozy, who himself has been confronted several times during his five years, to such movements. In September 2009, dairy producers were thus prevented the Minister of Agriculture, Bruno Le Maire, visit the International Exhibition of Livestock Rennes, despite the announcement of an aid of 30 million euros.
The emergency plan announced by the government “is not up to the French agriculture the crisis” , he believes. “The urgency is to act on prices. It is therefore necessary to provide the means to enforce the agreements made with distribution and whole sector “, also deems it essential to provide new liquidity facilities to farms in difficulty, which is the One of the objects of the measures presented.
LR party will “extremely vigilant” in their application, warns Nicolas Sarkozy, who denounced the “mistakes” as committed by his successor since 2012 and calls on the rural electorate in view of regional elections next December.
“We understand the anxiety of farmers ‘
At noon, Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, said: ” We hear the anguish of the farmers’ . “There can not be a rat race of the low prices [...] The peasant world did not need emergency bandages, he needs a future [...] Efforts The work, the fruit of his labor, dignity, this is the peasant world. Everyone should live with dignity from work “, he has also twitté.
Removal of dams on the A1
In the North However, farmers gradually raised their dam on the A1 but traffic in both directions was still very difficult to 7:00 with many corks on the A1 and surrounding roads. “It raises the camp,” said AFP coordinator growls movement of farmers and director of the FDSEA of the Northern Department, Eric Taisne, partially blocking the motorway A1 from the night of Tuesday to Wednesday near Lille with several hundred tractors. “We are pleased with the strong mobilization, stronger than expected with nearly 500 tractors and more than 1,000 people who were displaced from across the department and are now awaiting the proposals of the Minister,” he added since the interchange of Seclin where farmers had established their barrage filter.
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