Paris, February 13, 2016 (AFP) – Farmers participated Friday in a meeting on trade negotiations between retailers and their suppliers, including the food industry, while field anger producer unabated despite announcements Thursday François Hollande.
“L e Prime Minister will announce by February 17, a further reduction of social contributions, immediately, for all farmers, “said Mr. Holland Thursday after a reshuffle which disappointed the agricultural world. “We expected a bit these few ads. Lower social charges had already been announced in the last few months (…) The bad news is Stéphane Le Foll remains Minister of Agriculture. He does not defend the records, particularly at European level, “responded Vincent Saillard , president of the FDSEA Cher at a demonstration on the ring road of Bourges.
An opinion not shared Laurent Pinatel , spokesman for the peasant Confederation welcomed Mr Le Foll guard his ministry saying that “in times of crisis have a minister who is in knowledge of the issues and who can ensure continuity it is rather a positive sign sent to the French Agriculture.” He also stressed the importance of the concept of “production control” in the memorandum summarizing the position of France on the European policy of breeding sent this week by Mr Le Foll to the Commission. Hollande has also promised that “things were moving” in the European Council on Agriculture scheduled for Monday in Brussels, where France has particular request “a European storage plan” to unclog the market for overproduction of milk and pork.
At the national level, the Minister of Agriculture also accelerates the tempo with the Friday’s meeting of the representatives of supermarkets, processors and producers around the Minister of Economy , Emmanuel Macron, to discuss trade relations in agricultural and food sectors. Representatives of supermarkets were received Monday by the Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, accompanied by the Ministers of Agriculture and Economy, while the annual negotiations between retailers and suppliers in full swing. On this occasion, Emmanuel Macron had emphasized the importance of tripartite negotiations. “We need distributors, manufacturers and producers to get around the table,” he told.
The idea is to break the cycle that has been in place since several years: supermarkets pushing for industrial lower their prices and they felt that they can not get off their costs by paying less for their raw material to farmers
Actions and overflows
the meeting is intended as a sign of appeasement towards farmers to end, which increased its actions on the night of Thursday to Friday, after the announcement of the reshuffle. Supermarkets were particularly targeted.
So Niort and Landes , breeders went “calmly” in supermarkets to check the origin of certain products like meat, and affix stickers to warn consumers about those of foreign origin, traceability opaque or misleading labels. In the Finistère , five farmers were taken into custody after a demonstration and building deterioration of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Finistère to Quimper in the night Thursday to Friday. Traveling to Chateau-Salins, in Moselle , the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, was greeted Friday afternoon by farmers who controlled access to the city with whom he discussed a fifteen minutes. In the Channel , actions by farmers specially targeted hotlines PS and MPs of the Socialist Party, like Saint-Lô, Cherbourg , and to the permanence PS MP Stéphane Travert in La Haye-du-Puits, about fifty kilometers south of Cherbourg. In Finistère, farmers dumped the equivalent of three trailers of trash and waste straw to the house of the deputy PS Richard Ferrand in Motreff
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