Agriculture: Emmanuel Macron questioned by minority unions on his promise to "floor prices"
The three minority agricultural unions called, Tuesday, April 9, on the Head of State to put in place the “floor prices” promised during his visit to the Agricultural Show, “condition n°1” according to them “to sustainably emerge from the agricultural crisis”. The Rural Coordination, the Peasant Confederation and the Movement for the Defense of Family Farmers (Modef), respectively second, third and fourth representative unions behind the majority FNSEA-Young Farmers (JA) alliance, together signed an open letter to the President of the Republic.
If the Peasant Confederation and Modef, classified on the left, regularly make joint communications, this is a rare rapprochement with the Rural Coordination around the question of income. Decided “despite our differences”the initiative intends to deliver a “strong signal” in a “context of crisis and facing historical challenges”.
During his stormy visit to the Agricultural Show at the end of February, Emmanuel Macron set a goal of “floor prices” For “protect agricultural income”. Since then, the executive has continued to explain that it in fact intends to strengthen, via a future text of law, the so-called Egalim provisions supposed to improve the consideration of farmers’ production costs, to prevent them from sell at a loss.
The subject of floor prices “has scandalously almost disappeared from the 62 commitments declined by the government in recent days” to get out of the crisis, judge the minority unions. “Abandoning this central subject to the sole evaluation of the Egalim laws is completely insufficient, too uncertain and too slow”they add.
The majority unions FNSEA and JA, as well as the agricultural sectors, did not appreciate the presidential formula of “floor prices”considering it contrary to the laws of commerce in an open market, where French production risks becoming too expensive.
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