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Monday, July 27, 2015

Le Monde- Agriculture Crisis: The Week

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Agricultural crisis: a week of mobilization

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Après une série de réunions d’urgence et d’accords cette semaine pour relever le prix du boeuf, du porc et du lait, les éleveurs disent vouloir vérifier que les promesses seront tenues ou jugent les résultats insuffisants.
After a series of emergency and agreements since last Sunday meetings to raise the price of beef, pork and milk, the discontent of farmers persisted Saturday, July 25. Back a week of conflict.
  • Sunday, July 19: the anger of farmers broke out in Caen
The day after Francois Hollande's call for supermarkets to improve their remuneration - after the art hog and cattle, but dairy farmers protested on July 2 against the non-application, in their view, the agreement reached under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture, June 17, supposed to raise prices - several hundred farmers and producers of Calvados block access to the city of Caen.
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Farmers protest against falling prices of meat and milk which does not allow them to cover their production costs. They accuse the other players in the industry (processing, distribution, etc.) have caused prices to the point of strangling their livelihoods.
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  • Monday, July 20: The movement spread
Farmers do not have to stop there. Some of them organize operations and other snail block the Mont-Saint-Michel earlier this afternoon. The unions are adamant blockages will not be lifted until the Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll, will not come to their meeting in Caen to initiate discussions.
  • Tuesday, July 21: The Minister of Agriculture meets farmers
Stéphane Le Foll went to Caen in the afternoon, after a meeting at Matignon on mainlines. Mr Le Foll, who had first proposed to farmers to receive Thursday in Paris, finally yielded to the request of the farmers and made the trip that day.
Following this meeting, the Departmental Federation of Farmers' Unions (FDSEA) Calvados maintains blockages breeders on major roads of Normandy. "We were not there to negotiate," said his side The Minister. A much-anticipated report of agricultural prices mediator shall be returned in the evening to the ministry.
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After the Normandy into action on Sunday, several roads are blocked in the evening.
  • Wednesday, July 22: The government is providing € 600 million
Stéphane Le Foll outlines the government's emergency plan to relieve the cash flow of farmers, helping to support investment and export. Six hundred million euros will be released. This device has 24 measures grouped in six axes, combining cyclical and structural actions.
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The president of the FDSEA of Calvados, Jean-Yves Heurtin, announced a "suspension" blockages around Caen, but specifies that this break was by no means "stop" of the movement of farmers, who remain suspicious after announcement of the aid package. Efforts are continuing all over France, Wednesday afternoon, from Brittany to Aquitaine. New dams are erected Wednesday night near Lyon (Rhône) and Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) by breeders disappointed by the announcements of the executive.
  • Thursday, July 23: raised dams ... but "pressure" maintained
Breeders start up several roadblocks on major roads of the territory , particularly in Lyon, as they were asked to FNSEA elndemain the announcement of the emergency plan of the government.
The secretary general of Young Farmers (JA), Florent Dornier, however assures farmers mobilized in Lyon they would "maintain all summer pressure" to obtain guarantees on prices.
Read also: Producing beef, how much it costs a breeder?
  • Friday, July 24: Milk producers also on the frontline
After three hours of discussion in the Ministry of Agriculture, all the milk sector operators agree on an increase in milk prices until December. The prices at which farmers sell their milk will not fall below 340 euros for 1,000 liters. This agreement is criticized because it concerns only part of dairy products.
 Read more: After the crisis of the meat, that of milk
  • Saturday, July 25: ranchers remain mobilized
Free tolls and highway operations snail, verification of the origin of meat in many supermarkets, farmers remain mobilized in several regions of France. Breeders say they want to ensure that the promises will be kept or deem unsatisfactory results. The president of the FNSEA, Xavier Beulin, calls farmers to exercise restraint in their actions on the ground. 
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