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FRENCH FARMERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST LOW GRAIN PRICES, NEW PESTICIDE REGULATIONS
Apr. 28, 2010
BrownfieldAgNews reports:
French farmers tied up rush-hour in Paris Tuesday morning, hundreds of tractors and thousands of farmers descended upon the capitol city to call on the government to do something about low grain prices.
French grain farmers say their income dropped 51 percent in the last year and if the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy doesn't do something, many will be bankrupt by the end of the year.
France is Europe's top cereal grain producer but the farmers say if the government doesn't come through, German and Belgium will pass them up.
Talks are just getting underway for the next European Common Agricultural Policy renewal in 2013. There is growing pressure from a number of European Union member-nations to reduce the CAP. France is the largest benefactor of the current policy netting 20 percent of the EU subsidies last year.
The farmers are also protesting stricter environmental regulations which would cut pesticide use in half by 2018.
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