Monday, August 22, 2016

Angry dairy farmers increase the pressure at Lactalis – The Point

Nearly 400 farmers blocked a Monday night road leading to the Lactalis factory near Laval, determined to extend their action over several days to get a “fair price” of milk from the world leader in dairy products.

the message is clear: “no Lactalis truck will come out of the factory as we have not been heard,” he told Philippe Jehan, President of the departmental Federation of farmers’ unions (FDSEA ) of Mayenne before an audience of farmers from the West. The union leader also threatened to go “withdraw (rays) of the supermarkets Lactalis products.”

Shortly after 23:00, no truck out or never entered the Mayenne plant Lactalis, has a journalist from AFP. The roundabout near the plant was completely blocked by a dozen tractors and traffic was interrupted.

The action took place peacefully. A dozen riot police trucks and a dozen other gendarmes were stationed nearby.

Lactalis Around the road, Young Farmers (JA) had set up a tent to accommodate all throughout the week the farmers who have to relay on the site. Many posters, installed on trucks and tractors, read: “Breeders overcome must milk save.” Or “Our business has a price”

Mayenne breeders began this action. at the initiative of the FDSEA (majority union) and JA. The Mayennais will be raised Tuesday by the producers of Britain. Normandy and the Loire Valley assure the blockade the following days.

Posted near the Lactalis factory with his tractor, Loïc is “determined to stay long it takes.” Producer for over 20 years, he came to express his “ras-le-bol”.

“I was born into the business, I have never seen such a deep crisis,” says Mayennais to tears.

Lactalis, which highlights a “crisis of overproduction”, said he was ready for producer organizations to discuss with them in milk prices, assured on France Inter Michel Nalet, carrier word of the group.

“The problem with Lactalis is that the wage share is not in his DNA,” says Pascal Clément, President of the dairy section of the Regional Federation of Agricultural Unions (FRSEA ) the great West, which also points “results increasingly important dairy industry” as “dairy farmers are in a dramatic situation.”

This month, the price charged by Lactalis is 256 euros per tonne. It was 363 euros in July 2014.

– ‘We do not want to beg’ –

“In my department, by 31 December, was close to 14% farms that will put the key under the door. usually we have 2 or 3% per year who retire but now 15% is unimaginable, and those that remain into debt. we can not continue like this, “urges Ludovic Blin, of the FDSEA of the Channel.

the western farmers,” determined “to find” worthy economic conditions “, hope their movement will echo in d other areas, which was the case on Monday in the Aveyron.

“We do not want to beg. We, as farmers, we want to live in our business but in any case no one asks aid to the state. what we want is that the mediator trade relations (…) to intervene and put around the table interlocutors to found an agreement that allows by the end of the year to have a reasonable price for our farmers, “he told AFP Philippe Jehan.

“The Ombudsman is available to the parties to engage this mediation engage this discussion, find ways of dialogue”, had indicated in the day the Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll.

Pessimistic about the future of the industry, Mr. Clement warns: “If our French farms disappear, we will end up with large milk factories as the US and Germany. this is not the model of dairy France (…) this is what we want to say Emmanuel Besnier, “the CEO of Lactalis

08/23/2016 02..: 4:13 p.m. – Changed (France) (AFP) – AFP © 2016

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