Agroecology swept away by obscurantist ultraliberalism
A year ago, farmers took to the road to Paris on their tractors, blocking roads... A few days before the Agricultural Show, the watchword was: remunerative prices! A year later, farmers are still doing just as badly. Incomes have fallen by an average of 8%. Production and agricultural prices have fallen again, as indicated by INSEE. 16% of agricultural households live below the poverty line, compared to 14% of French households. And 10,000 farms disappear each year.
The Salon de l'agriculture reopens its doors and no new response has been provided. Neither to facilitate access to agricultural land for young people, nor to guarantee remunerative prices for farmers, nor to protect them from imports and multinationals that buy their products at knockdown prices. Worse, the European Union is preparing to ratify a free trade agreement
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