Despite the food law, farmers' income again at half mast

Despite the presence of President Macron on a farm in the Côte d'Or at the beginning of the week, the failure to hold the agricultural high mass at the Porte de Versailles this year has taken a very symbolic turn for the 450,000 producers in France.

A sector whose health crisis has revived the difficulties.

Despite a slight improvement in their income in 2019 with the entry into force of the food law, and if the profession - very attacked in recent years - has regained letters of nobility, farmers are not spared by the crisis.

And this even if they have largely fed the confined French for a year.

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First, because with the closure of restaurants, 20% of their outlets have gone up, and up to 40% for poultry and wine producers.

The same goes for sales abroad, which the closure of borders has greatly disrupted.

This lost 1.5 billion euros in the sale of wines, spirits or pork for export, according to the chambers of agriculture.

And do

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