Agriculture: INRAE ​​recommends an overhaul of the indicator used by the government to assess pesticide use

From this sequence, the angry farmers emerged as the big winners. In early 2024, feverish in the face of the fed-up farmers, Matignon announced the overhaul of the Ecophyto plan. A sea serpent of the ecological transition, it has since 2008 called for a 50% reduction in pesticides within ten years: a goal never achieved. During the crisis , the FNSEA demanded its outright "rejection." Prime Minister Gabriel Attal responded to the union by promising a "change of method," then, in May 2024, offering a new version, renamed the "Ecophyto 2030 strategy" and extensively modified.

The main victory of the agricultural union and its supporters was