Farmers: "The anger has not subsided"estimates the president of the Rural Coordination of Eure-et-Loir
“Anger [des agriculteurs] has not fallen back”, estimates the president of the Rural Coordination of Eure-et-Loir, Aurélie Hallain. She was a guest on the show Ma France on France Bleu on Thursday May 9.
“We have undertaken operations to cover radars throughout France, we are going to prevent the radars from operating since we are not being paid our bonuses, she explains. Today we are being prevented from functioning. The government has nice words but there is no concrete action on our farms.”
Reason for farmers’ anger: the delay in payment of CAP premiums, the common agricultural policy, and the aid promised by the State. Concerning the CAP, “there is a software incompatibilitydeplores Aurélie Hallain. It’s a bit unacceptable in this digital and all-computing age to tell us: you might finally get your bonuses in September.”
According to Rural Coordination, the aid promised by the State has not been fully paid either. “We were promised an envelope to change our practices, to have practices that were more respectful of the environment, and today when we do the calculation, we are missing 20 euros per hectare, believes the representative of Rural Coordination. They [l’Etat] did not think that so many farmers would change their practices in such a short time and today we are being punished.”
Over two days, farmers in Eure-et-Loir therefore covered almost all of the radars in their department. An action that has started “since the start of the year in the south of France, and there it is starting to rise again, describes Aurélie Hallain. Last week was the Cher, these actions will multiply every week in our territory.”
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