While Emmanuel Macron is expected this Tuesday in a farm in Côte-d'Or (Burgundy) to maintain the link with private farmers this year of their emblematic show, the latter are increasing the initiatives to, themselves, keep in contact with the French.
Like this collective of 130 producers, united for two years under the name of Here the Earth, which launched Monday the operation "A farmer in your telephone directory".
The goal: to offer volunteers, who will have registered on the collective's website beforehand, to be called back by an operator to answer their questions about the farming profession.
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“The approach is to recreate a direct link with the French, to explain our profession.
It is essential, when one is interested in agriculture, to have a referent on the subject in his repertory ”
, details Jérôme Regnault
(here on the left)
, one of the three co-founders of Here the Earth, who promises not to not
"caster"
its ambassadors.
This operation is financed by a Leetchi kitty, which raised 6,000 euros two years ago.
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The approach may seem anecdotal but it joins others - such as Agridemain (300 producers) - who have been trying in recent years to communicate about a very disparaged agricultural sector.
With tension on topics like animal welfare, glyphosate or areas of no treatment for pesticides.
The site of Here the Earth will also address more general questions such as the thorny reform of the CAP, which France must present its national version by the summer.
