“Domingos worries us, we have one storm after another, that doesn’t make the restoration work easier,” lament the FNSEA farmers

“Domingos worries us, we have one storm after another, with a lot of rain, that doesn’t make the restoration work easier”, laments Saturday November 4 on franceinfo the secretary general of the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA), Hervé Lapie, after the passage of storm Ciaran and before the arrival of the Domingos depression. The first storm made “a lot of damage” on farms in Finistère, Côtes-d’Armor, Manche and Calvados, specifies the farmer.

“Many roofs of buildings, greenhouses, tunnels” were damaged. “A greenhouse grower who has lost his greenhouse will have losses for more than a year”, warns the secretary general of the FNSEA. Furthermore, some farms are not “not supplied with water”, due to power cuts and this prevents milking in places. Farms are in “great difficulty”worries Hervé Lapie.

Agricultural disaster system

Crops were also “damaged” by gusts of wind. “Seedlings are also disrupted” by the heavy rains, says the farmer. This “impairs the work of farmers”. “Our priority is to restore visibility to farmers impacted by the storm”insists Hervé Lapie who indicates that the FNSEA will “working with insurers”“activate the agricultural disaster system” And “work with elected officials” to obtain the status of natural disaster in the areas concerned.