After tensions have arisen in the dairy sector this summer, other agricultural sectors are immersed in an extremely difficult situation. What solutions are proposed to support the income productions in the most trouble? Jean-Michel Lemetayer an update on a farm back in charge.
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Extracts of interview with Jean-Michel Lemetayer for Le Figaro Economie - 01/09/2010
Interview by Eric de la Chesnais
"Agricultural Modernization Law (AML), milk prices, rising grain, not to mention the drought. To mark the start of the FNSEA, its president, Jean-Michel Lemetayer discusses the issues that marked the summer.
Le Figaro - How do you approach this autumn?
Jean-Michel Lemetayer - The agricultural situation, although some market indicators are better than last year, remains difficult. I think of the dairy farmers or those pork or veal. They are doubly penalized. Not only do they act in a highly degraded, but they also face the drought has pushed up the cost of animal feed.
How redress the balance?
All economic actors, be they processors or distributors must understand that there can have a sustainable future for French agriculture without paying a price level for the producer. How do you want the French producer of hogs so if it sells below its cost price? It is illusory to think that the market will solve everything. The distribution must accept increases. This was the case after the agreement reached on August 18 that upgrades the price of milk for the farmer. We must abandon the logic of the lowest price. It destroys value added and the peasants.
AML can it be an early response in France?
The contracts provided for in the Agricultural Modernization Law (AML), adopted in July must be done sector by sector. We are currently working with the food industry. The inter should take, too, their responsibility, as this summer, in the melon. As the minister, he must now implement its proposals for cluster development in a specific line. [...]"
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