The President of the Republic made this request to the Minister of the Interior so that he instructs the prefects to go this weekend to meet farmers whose anger is growing.
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Emmanuel Macron asked the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin to instruct the prefects to go this weekend to meet farmers and their representative organizations, franceinfo learned on Friday January 19 from the Élysée.
The Head of State wants them to discuss directly the issues they express, as close as possible to the field, as the Minister of Agriculture will do on Saturday, specifies this source.
Unease in the peasant world
Discontent has been growing in the agricultural world for several days in Europe and France. Since Thursday afternoon, several hundred farmers have been blocking the A64 motorway south of Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), where they intend to stay until they have obtained significant progress, reports France Bleu Occitanie. They particularly mention water storage, irrigation quotas, unfair competition and the health crisis on livestock farms.
In the Loire, Mayenne and Loire-Atlantique, milk producers also gathered in front of Lactalis sites to denounce the purchase prices offered by the group this Thursday. Elsewhere in Europe, German and Romanian farmers also mobilized earlier in the month.
Rural Coordination, the second largest French agricultural union, plans to organize “actions all over France” Thursday January 25 to denounce the “lack of consideration” of French and European policies towards the agricultural world.
