“Developing our agriculture means producing and regaining our food sovereignty.
We must stop importing products that we could make at home.
» These words are those of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal this Sunday, January 28 in a market garden farm in Parçay-Meslay (Indre-et-Loire).
An offensive speech but one which comes up against a difficult reality: for several years, France's agricultural autonomy has been crumbling.
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If many farmers have been mobilized for ten days and even want to block Paris from this Monday to make their dismay heard, it is in particular because they see, helplessly, that the France farm is failing.
According to a report from France Agrimer, from 2019 to 2021, 33% of vegetables were imported, 37% of temperate fruits, 21% of beef, 26% of pork and even 42% of poultry.
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