605. This is the number of farmers over the age of 14 who committed suicide in 2015, according to figures from the Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA).
This is the most recent data available.
In detail, 496 men and 109 women died that year.
Farmers and agricultural workers (active or inactive) are taken into account.
How to fight against this scourge?
LREM deputy for Lot-et-Garonne, Olivier Damaisin, submits a report on the subject to the Prime Minister on Tuesday.
The elected official was entrusted with this mission by the government at the Agricultural Show last February.
A year and a half ago, the film “In the name of the earth” brought to light the issue of agricultural suicide.
But this societal theme is still largely taboo in the French countryside.
How do farmers arrive at the irreparable?
Le Figaro
was able to interview relatives of farmers who ended their own lives and a farmer who
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