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Agriculture: the puzzle of ecological transition

2020-09-10T18:53:09.901Z


DECRYPTION - Peasants face technical and economic difficulties, and in particular foreign competition which is sometimes unfair.


"When you don't have the means to invest, injunctions are not enough!"

: arrived at the beginning of July Rue de Varenne, the new Minister of Agriculture and Food Julien Denormandie repeated this message several times.

These injunctions are those of the French for "less pesticides", "more animal welfare", "less intensive breeding" or "more organic and French products".

All without spending an extra euro.

And by having a strong agriculture, producing as much.

Such an equation can only be resolved in the medium term, after having invested heavily.

What cause some jolts in the in-between.

To read also:

Julien Denormandie: "Ecology without solution is an ecology of dead end"

Thus, by tabling a bill on September 3 to allow the beet industry to derogate under strict conditions from the ban on neonicotinoids, the agricultural engineer by training paradoxically began a mandate he wishes to place under the sign of the ecological transition of Ferme France.

But this step aside on pesticides

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Source: lefigaro

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