French Gov’t Aid to Farmers Insufficient As ‘Big Crisis’ Looming – NGO

Thursday, July 30, 2015
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
28.07.2015

In recent weeks, French farmers have staged protests across the country against what they consider to be the government’s insufficient efforts to deal with falling prices and cheap imports.

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anna Liatsou — The French Government’s financial rescue package for the country’s agricultural sector is not robust enough to deal with the severe crisis the industry may face in the long-term, the president of the organization Jeunes Agriculteurs (Young Farmers) told Sputnik Tuesday.

On July 22, French Minister of Agriculture Stephane Le Foll announced a $654-million emergency aid package to help the agricultural sector. According to him, some 10 percent of livestock farmers are on the brink of bankruptcy.

“The French government has proposed a 600-million-euro package to help the farmers. This is good news for farmers who are on the verge of bankruptcy but it is a short-term answer. We are going to face a big crisis, so we need long-term solution,” Thomas Diemer warned.

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