On Friday night, a second round of negotiations on the price of Milk with Lactalis failed. In the process, the FDSEA 53 called on protesters to end their occupation near the industrial site of the Lactalis group Laval . “The event is over. We had no interest in staying until Monday. You require to hold, it was useless,” said Saturday, shortly before 1:00 am, before some 200 farmers, Philippe Jehan, president of the FDSEA Mayenne. “It is postponed, we will break camp. The demonstration is over,” he added.
Mr. Jéhan justified this choice by the decision of the court made Friday evening and forcing the demonstrators to release at least one of the industrial site access or face a financial penalty. “It is preferred to break camp because it was a penalty Arago street. You should have seen the trucks leave. If the blocking was 5.000 euros per hour,” said he said.
“We will not surrender, we will not give up”
“the strategy, the future rebuilt. we will not surrender, we will not let go,” said the microphone, before the protesters Christiane Lambert, senior vice president of the FNSEA. “We will identify points on the map and we will go to each site Lactalis, among other such actions to continue and succeed,” she added. Mrs Lambert said that, “(Saturday), a telephone meeting is scheduled with Xavier Beulin and organizes the nationwide strategy to return Lactalis on a negotiation.”
No date has been discussed by negotiators representing producers for a possible resumption of talks with Lactalis. Started Friday at 18H00 to Laval, the second negotiating session, following a session marathon 11 hours in Paris, ended shortly before 11 p.m..
Lactalis for a revaluation of 6%
“We, the revaluation was asked is barely 10% while they (Lactalis) remained at 6%,” explained to AFP Sebastien Amand, vice president of the Organization of Normandy Centre producers (OPNC), which participated in the negotiations. The 6% proposed by Lactalis roughly correspond to the increase of 15 euros for 1,000 liters to 1 September, or about 271 euros per tonne, unilaterally announced Friday morning by the dairy giant in a statement. 10% claimed by the producers represented an increase of about 26 euros for 1,000 liters, or 282 euros per tonne.
After the first negotiations in Paris, the mediator of agricultural trade relations Francis Amand, missing in Laval, had specified that he had made a “proposal last chance to 280 euros for 1,000 liters” for the last five months of 2016 compared to a current price of about 257. This offer was increased to 23 euros, an offer accepted by Lactalis, according to the Ombudsman, but refused by lesreprésentants producers.
The producers believe their production costs to a minimum beyond 300 per tonne. With a price of 257 euro / t, so they work at a loss and widening the deficit of their farms.
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