“The means to appease this anger is, first of all, to allow a dignified income for our farmers,” says the president of the Occitanie Region.

After being received in Matignon on Tuesday, Carole Delga asks on franceinfo for a “dignified” income for farmers and better regional partnerships for collective catering.

“The ways to appease this anger are, first of all, to provide a dignified income for our farmers,” declared, Tuesday January 30, on franceinfo Carole Delga, president of the Occitanie Region, president of Régions de France. She asks “a decent income for our farmers who work 70 hours a week for a few hundred euros”.

The elected official was received in Matignon, at the end of the day Tuesday, by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, after his general policy speech to the National Assembly. Asked about the means to put an end to the anger of farmers which has shaken France for ten days, Carole Delga recalls: “What we, the regional presidents, are defending is that there be more local products in collective catering, that legal rules be simplified to bring more products from our farmers to our children’s plates. , in high school canteens. The president of the Occitanie Region “also told the Prime Minister that we needed more produce from our farmers for meals in our hospitals.”

The question of access to water

Carole Delga also spoke with Gabriel Attal about access to water, “for regions like [sienne] which are very affected by drought. She also discussed “water management [dans des régions comme] Hauts-de-France where we must be able to act to stop these floods.

Regarding the general policy speech delivered by the Prime Minister Tuesday afternoon to the National Assembly, Carole Delga recalls that “in the peasant world” where she comes from, “we are used to trusting actions: we talk little and we work a lot, so we are waiting to see aid from Europe in hard cash, but also a simplification of procedures.”

The president of the Occitanie Region believes that to put an end to the farmers’ movement, “we must succeed in reestablishing confidence, and there must be no violence, no slippage, because the demands of our farmers are legitimate, and above all we must not give any reason to our detractors.”