“Livestock Night in distress”: farmers vent their … – TF1

At the call of the FNSEA and JA (Young Farmers), farmers and ranchers gathered Thursday night in front of prefectures and hypermarkets Convoys of dozens of tractors with trailers laden with straw, manure, tires … It is in the West that the rallies were the most numerous and the most tense.

The participants were protesting against the non-implementation, according to them, the agreement reached under the auspices of the Ministry of the Agriculture there a fortnight supposed to raise prices. They feel that too low price of meat, pork as beef, do not allow them to cover their production costs

The head of the FNSEA criticized

According to the FNSEA, the income of beef producers has dropped to around 12,000 euros per year. The Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Le Foll Wednesday asked the mediator of agricultural trade relations to monitor those agreements to see if the different parties held their commitments to increase prices paid to farmers, including industrial and distribution.

In Saint-Brieuc where farmers were hundreds -a thousand, according organisateurs-, Xavier Beulin, head of the FNSEA, was heckled, accused for not being firm enough with distributors and governments.

VIDEO. The reasons for the anger of farmers