The departmental president of the Rural Coordination, Thierry Laplaige, warns of an ongoing disaster… and announces large-scale actions if the peasants are not heard.
Rainy spring, frost in April, floods… agriculture in Haute-Garonne suffered this year. “And the last blow of the hammer came from the rise in the prices of fuel and fertilizers, laments Thierry Laplaige, the departmental president. The fertilizer increased by up to 50% in a few months, and the fuel by 35% ”. For him, it is about an unprecedented crisis, “never known in the department”, which occurs after already six years of big worries and real “famine” for the farmers.
“It will shake” …
“With the Covid pandemic, prices have been halved for cooperatives, and the latter are starting to send bailiffs, alarms Thierry Laplaige. The farmers had entered into contracts for the sale of cereals with the cooperatives, well in advance of the surge in prices in September, which will therefore not benefit the peasants whose treasuries are drained ”. A finding that pushes the Rural Coordination to ask for the establishment of a Fund for the Relief of Charges (FAC), supplemented by a blank banking year and the postponement of loan annuities. “We must recreate cash on farms,” said Thierry Laplaige, who intends to defend these grievances on October 15 before the regional director of food, agriculture and forestry (DRAAF). “At the end of the month, we must also meet with the direction of the territories (DDT), but if we do not get anything by that date, we will take action.” Thierry Laplaige announces large gatherings throughout the national territory and blockades of cities. “It will be as big as in 1992, it will shake,” he warns. To the best of my mind …
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