Farmers have found bitumen in Haute-Garonne.
At the call of Young Farmers, they demonstrated with their tractors this Monday in front of the Balma services and payment agency which notably pays European public aid linked to the CAP.
According to the Dispatch, They dumped hundreds of kilos of straw and used tires to denounce the non-regularization of aid payments, more than a month after the agricultural crisis which shook the country.
They are waiting for payment of 10,000 to 20,000 euros.
“Prime Minister Gabriel Attal had promised: on March 15, we were to receive the CAP pay.
By Friday, we still hadn't received anything.
This aid is essential for certain farms: we will therefore go and collect our check.
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At the end of January, Gabriel Attal had in fact announced that CAP aid would be paid no later than March 15 into the bank accounts of operators.
The Young Farmers' union launched a call for mobilization last week on Monday March 18, more than a month after their meeting with Gabriel Attal in Montastruc-de-Salies in the midst of an agricultural crisis, to demand accountability.
New action by #AgriculteursEnColere this Monday March 18 in Balma, near #Toulouse pic.twitter.com/OnXzKGcJSY
— Maréva Laville (@marevalaville) March 18, 2024
Most of the farmers came from Lauragais or Gers.
“The government must take this as a booster shot.
If we do not receive the money owed to us, the mobilization will go up a notch.
We're young, we have nothing to lose.
We are not denying ourselves anything,” said Thomas Klunker, general secretary of Young Farmers.
Meeting Tuesday with Gabriel Attal
Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
The Minister Delegate to the Minister of Agriculture affirmed that part of the aid had already been paid to TF1 and that "other aid will be deployed in the coming days", most of which must be "paid before the month of June ".
The minister was questioned about the postponement of the meeting between Emmanuel Macron and the FNSEA farmers, announced on Saturday by the president of the union Arnaud Rousseau.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher confirmed that the meetings would be held with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, until “the closure of this sequence”.
The FNSEA insists on all of its 62 requests and wants them all to be taken into account.
“We are waiting for the implementation of Gabriel Attal's measures on pensions, water, phytos, breeding, cash flow, simplification... The pace is not there at all,” Arnaud Rousseau detailed Saturday in a post on X.
The conditions to emerge from the agricultural crisis are not met.
The meeting at the Elysée on Tuesday is postponed.
Placing this responsibility on the unions demonstrates the gap between declarations and actions.
After European progress we await the variation…
— Arnaud Rousseau (@rousseautrocy) March 16, 2024
“Negotiations continue to advance on the 62 commitments,” added Agnès Pannier-Runacher.