It’s exhausting to think about the extent to which farmers are monitored of their every day work: by satellite tv for pc, by helicopter, by inspections. Edifying testimony from Jean-Luc Guérard, from Giscourt, in Meurthe-et-Moselle.
France’s farmers are in revolt. After Germany, Poland, Romania and the Netherlands, French farmers are blocking the roads to voice their anger. Their calls for are directed at Gabriel Attal’s authorities, but additionally at Brussels, and embody insufferable paperwork and fixed checks by the administration, which forces them to spend two days per week on paperwork. And to threat enormous penalties at each flip.
Satellite tv for pc verification
Till just lately, Jean-Luc Guérard, now retired, ran a 210-hectare combined crop-livestock GAEC farm in Villers-en-Haye (54). He fed 70 dairy cows and round 100 fattening cattle. He additionally grew cereals: wheat, barley, rapeseed and sunflower. Since he began farming in 1984, the infamous Widespread Agricultural Coverage (CAP) “has by no means stopped inventing new requirements”, he says. Created by technocrats in Brussels, these requirements are included into French legal guidelines and rules. “However our authorities retains including to them,” says the previous farmer. To the purpose the place he was obliged to spend two days per week doing paperwork. It’s important to declare every part to the European management our bodies,” explains Jean-Luc Guérard. Right here’s only one instance. I had fruit timber within the meadows. I needed to deduct the floor space shaded by my timber from the cultivated agricultural space! A satellite tv for pc passes over our farms each day to test that our declarations are appropriate.
Within the occasion of an anomaly, the penalty is harsh. It applies to the entire farm. CAP premiums are withdrawn.
Helicopter checks
One other weird instance. Jean-Luc Guérard had planted a number of Jerusalem artichokes for his personal consumption. The Jerusalem artichoke is an historic vegetable with a relatively candy taste and a fragile aroma much like that of the artichoke. In spring, it produces massive yellow flowers, relatively like sunflowers. However the technocrats in Brussels don’t know what they’re speaking about. From satellite tv for pc photographs, they couldn’t work out what these unusual crops had been doing in a plot of land. They despatched a Gendarmerie helicopter to take clearer photographs. However, as soon as once more, it was unattainable to acknowledge the Jerusalem artichokes our grandparents used to take pleasure in.
An inspection on the farm
Brussels subsequently dispatched an inspector from the Route départementale de l’agriculture (DDA). The investigator, who had come to test the unusual crops, needed to face the details. These weren’t crops of some type of drug grown in secret, however easy, innocent Jerusalem artichokes, which she photographed and despatched to Brussels.
(To be continued)
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