During his visit last Saturday to the Agricultural Show, Emmanuel Macron announced two additional measures to support farmers: the establishment of
“floor prices”
, supposed to ensure better income for producers, and an emergency plan for the cash flow of more fragile farms.
On this second point, the government does not intend to waste time: the sub-prefectures and departmental public finance directorates have already been tasked with identifying the farmers whose situation is the most delicate.
“It’s about making a census of farms in difficulty across the country. This census has started
,” the Prime Minister said this Tuesday morning on the RTL morning show.
The executive is waiting to know the results of this census to gauge the number of operators affected by the measure.
This will be added to the other boosts already granted by the executive, in particular the 200 million euros advance on non-road diesel (GNR).
Proposals “in terms of opening credits and interest rates”
This time, the government hopes that all financial players will agree to put their hands in their pockets.
This Tuesday at midday a new meeting will take place in Bercy bringing together the Ministers of Economy and Agriculture, Bruno Le Maire and Marc Fesneau,
"on farmers' cash flow plans and how to help them"
, with representatives of the tax authorities, banks, insurers and the agricultural social mutuality.
Banking institutions, in particular, are in the executive spectrum.
“I hope that the banks will play the game more, that they will formulate proposals in terms of opening credits and interest rates for all French farmers.
Today, we are not there,”
Bruno Le Maire said on Monday in
Les Échos
.
A call of the foot reformulated by Gabriel Attal this Tuesday morning on the sidelines of the Agricultural Show
.
“We want to mobilize all the stakeholders.
We pushed the banks a lot to mobilize them and for some we didn't have to push them much because they are already engaged with our farmers.
Crédit Mutuel and Crédit Agricole have already announced zero-rate or 2% loans to support our farmers.”
The Prime Minister also recalled that emergency cash aid had already been paid to certain farmers, for a total of “
10 million euros”.