A revolution in the fields: meeting women farmers

2024-02-24T06:23:40.311Z

Highlights: A revolution in the fields: meeting women farmers. The Agricultural Show, which opens its doors this Saturday in Paris, will also be an opportunity to highlight these women. In sixty years, this event, the most popular in France with more than 600,000 visitors in 9 days, has also seen the place of women evolve. They moved from the shadows of farmyards in the 1960s to the light of responsibilities on their farms but also to the helm of agricultural unions in the mid-2010s. So in 2017, a pig breeder from Maine-et-Loire from a modest Auvergne farm, Christiane Lambert, tells all.

REPORT - The Agricultural Show, which opens its doors this Saturday in Paris, will also be an opportunity to highlight these women who, in the farming world, have often become the spearhead of new agricultural practices.