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How the health crisis reconciled the French with their farmers

2021-02-26T18:49:29.841Z


SURVEY - This is a first since its creation: Covid obliges, the Agricultural Show is canceled. However, the crisis has clearly improved the image of farmers.


A first since the history of the Agricultural Show, created in 1964!

The doors of the 58th edition of the largest farm in France will remain closed this year.

This unmissable event, which brings together under one roof - Porte de Versailles, in Paris - farmers, city dwellers, politicians and industrialists was to begin this Saturday for a period of nine days.

But the Covid epidemic, which forced the organizers to close the demonstration a day earlier last year, decided otherwise.

However, against all odds, the health crisis has brought positive changes to the agricultural world.

Starting with the image of farmers in public opinion, which has significantly improved.

Last year, the show opened in a heavy climate: suspicion and denigration fed a worrying tendency to “agribashing”.

The peasants were accused of mistreating their animals, of polluting the earth with their chemical treatments.

So much so that the President of the Republic

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Source: lefigaro

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