The retirement of half of farm managers by 2030 will not lead to the restructuring of the French agricultural landscape.
No question of copying the productivist model of American mega-farms.
The government has made the political choice to preserve the model of family farms on a human scale, in the name of attachment to the territories and respect for the French agricultural identity.
This desire not to change anything in the essential complicates the deal: it takes 20,000 volunteers a year to take over the farms.
But this political choice sets the framework for the agricultural revolution to come.
It won't be about exploding the size of farms, but about changing…everything else.
The arrival of a new generation of heads of farms, not all children of farmers, is an opportunity.
The development of agricultural education and professional retraining will make it possible to turn all farmers into entrepreneurs.
They will know how to adopt…
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