French agriculture is not spared by the crisis

Bernard Comte is at the head of a breeding of 60 sows. Since the pandemic Covid-19 and with the bad harvests, he pays more and more to feed these animals. With the war in Ukraine, everything increased suddenly this time. “That took 20% in eight days. I’m worried, of course, because we’re already on the flow tense“, he confides. Russia is the world’s largest exporter of wheat, enough to disrupt prices for a long time.

Emmanuel Macron has promised a support plan to deal with the crisis, essential but insufficient according to Bernard Comte. “It does not represent a lot at the level of each farm. You have to share the envelope and suddenly it does not make large sums“, does he think. Just like the breeders present at the Agricultural Show, Bernard Comte would like the selling prices to be increased. Beyond cost increases, a sheep farmer fears he will run out of fertilizer to grow his cereal because it takes nitrogen and therefore gas, coming from Russia, to produce it.