Agricultural crisis: Jérôme Bayle, one of the leading figures of the movement, “ready to start again”

“We are ready to start again.” This is what ensures Jérôme Baylethe farmer who initiated the agricultural anger movement, at the microphone of BFMTV while the government unveils this Wednesday a bill aimed at improve the condition of farmers. “Nothing is excluded of course. I have said it from the start, farmers will not die with their mouths open,” added the cattle breeder from Haute-Garonne.

Already, since Tuesday, Breton farmers mobilized in Côtes-d’Armor at the call of the FNSEA, the main agricultural union to denounce the non-payment of state aid promised by the government.

For Jérôme Bayle, “if the State really wants to help farmers, shouldn’t they go and knock on the doors of large groups and tell them: Now you too are going to help us and you will you stop bleeding French farmers? “. According to him, oil companies recently increased their margins on non-road diesel (NGR), fuel for agricultural machinery, while the drop in price was one of the main demands of the recent movement.

“We ask to be able to live with dignity from our profession”

“We are not asking for financial means, we are asking to be able to live with dignity from our profession, that everyone stops making money on the backs of farmers, that farmers stop being taxed at 50 or 60 %… That would help us! “, he said.

However, Jérôme Bayle is in favor of continue negotiations between trade union organizations and the government. “We are aware that we will not save French agriculture in one week, 15 days, two months, three months! »

THE text presented by the government provides in particular around sixty commitments on emergency funds, simplifications, a “pause” in the development of the plan to reduce the use of pesticides. “The account will be there when the agricultural orientation law is passed. When the decrees finish being deployed,” promised the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau during the FNSEA congress.