The face of the 2020 Agriculture Show arrived at Porte de Versailles. In front of the eyes of multiple cameras and under the crackling of flashes, the Charolais cow Idéale made its debut Friday in the pavilion 1 of the exhibition center Friday, the day before the opening of the Show.
Leaving at 5 am from the small mountains of Cours-la-Ville (Rhône), Idéale, a ton, made its appearance a little before noon, under the lenses of multiple cameras and cameras came to immortalize it from all angles. Accompanied by her little calf, King of the meadows, the hiding place then took place in her enclosure.
The former president Jacques Chirac, a figure at the show who pays him a tribute in photos this year, would certainly have appreciated as a connoisseur the straight, broad and muscular back of this beautiful beast, worthy representative of the first meat breed in France (1, About 6 million heads).
"Our production must be remunerated at a fair price"
His breeder, Jean-Marie Goujat, once again defended the income of breeders, endangered in particular by the price war which the retail chains are engaged in, and that the Food law, which came into force in early 2019, failed to pacify.
“We want to transmit this profession to future generations. For that, our production must be remunerated at a fair price, "he said to journalists at the very moment when the Minister of Agriculture, Didier Guillaume, came to greet the" mascot of the show ". . “The number one problem is the income of breeders. Today, the account is not there yet, they must be remunerated at their fair value and live decently, "acknowledged the Minister.
Among the levers to guarantee this income: the budget of the common agricultural policy (CAP), in negotiations in Brussels, for which President Macron "is fighting tooth and nail", assured the Minister. "He left for Brussels with one objective, the maintenance of the CAP budget," assured Didier Guillaume, "because we know very well that if the CAP budget were to decrease beyond the departure of the British, […] That would be a problem. It would be a problem for the resilience of our agriculture, it would be a problem for direct aid to farmers, to enable them to live, and it would be a real problem for the installation of young people, a real problem for the agro-ecological transition ".
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"This is a big issue, which will condition the evolution of our prices," reacted Jean-Marie Goujat, who also calls on consumers: "when we choose to buy this or that piece of meat, such and such price, this or that origin, we also condition the breeding and agriculture that we want in our territories ”. A speech he will be keen to share with the 650,000 visitors expected at the show this year.
