More than 200,000 people responded to the national call to compensate for the lack of seasonal workers in agriculture or workers in the food and logistics sector, to feed the confined urban population, said the Minister of Agriculture and food this Tuesday.
"After the call that I launched, today there are more than 200,000 people who responded, and we have 5,000 recruiters who are organizing the work" said Minister Didier Guillaume on France 2 by referring to the platform launched in particular by Pole emploi.
"We are not going to take these people across France, they are going to work near their homes, with farmers, but also in agrifood companies, in transport and logistics," said the Minister.
Consume French products
Tuesday morning, the platform indicated that 10 621 offers were available in these sectors, but also in health, home help, energy and telecoms.
Didier Guillaume especially insisted on those called to work in the “food chain” so that it “does not break up” […] If it were broken, “there would be nothing to eat for our fellow citizens” a -he says. He encouraged French people confined to consume French products.
"If you can no longer go to the countryside, the countryside comes to you, buy fresh produce, fruit and vegetables […] if you cannot go to the sea, the sea comes to you, buy fish, seashells! He launched, while producers in many sectors find it difficult to find outlets.
Arms for "logistics"
"With the cold, there was not much work" still in agriculture, he conceded. "We have 5,000 recruiters who look at the profiles, and guide them so that they work in agriculture but also in logistics: it is very important that the products are sent to the places of purchase", he said. he says.
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The minister had launched a fortnight ago an appeal "to the army in the shadow of the men and women [who] are no longer working" and are put on partial unemployment because of the crisis linked to the Covid -19, inviting them to "join the great army of French agriculture" in search of labor for fruit and vegetable harvests or spring sowing.
In addition to the Pole emploi platform, the main FNSEA agricultural union had relayed the government's call on a dedicated platform www.desbraspourtonassiette.wizi.farm.
