Coverage, removal of posters and demonstrations: the actions of farmers, dissatisfied with the “Lack of concrete and lasting measures by the State”They multiply in Occitania, where the winter 2023 protest movement began.
On the night of Friday 18 to Saturday 19 October in Gers, around sixty farmers unloaded sheep’s wool, bales of hay and straw in front of several state buildings in Auch, at the request of the Rural Coordination.
“Loaded tractors, rotten boots. Wrap, wax, spray with yellow paint, in short: empty your farms, it’s time to make yourself understood.”had launched Lionel Candelon, regional president of the Rural Coordination in Occitania, to call for a mobilization that he would like to increase at the end of the year.
For its part, the National Federation of Agricultural Unions (FNSEA) and Young Farmers (JA) carry out actions to dismantle entrance and exit signs in municipalities in several departments.
Agony
In Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), 70 farmers carried out a symbolic action in front of the prefecture by placing 250 entrance signs to the municipalities of the department. The president of the JA of Tarn-et-Garonne asks “concrete answers”. “If after sowing wheat in three weeks we do not make progress, we will move on to more forceful actions with greater impact. “I often get calls from farmers who are in agony and have bailiffs at their door, this can’t go on any longer.”warned Agence France-Presse.
A similar action is planned for Monday afternoon in Foix, Ariège, where the FDSEA, the Departmental Federation of Farmers’ Unions and the JA denounce “the lack of concrete and lasting measures by the State in the face of the difficulties faced by the profession” already “multiple economic, climate, social and health crises”.
The agricultural protest movement that caused road blockades and numerous actions in the winter of 2023 started from the Toulouse region and pushed several ministers, including Gabriel Attal, then head of government, to move there. The new Minister of Agriculture, Annie Genevard, arrived on Thursday in the Pyrénées-Orientales, where the situation of winegrowers is critical due to an unprecedented drought.
