2022-10-02 22:00:00
The summary
By refusing to take head on the subject of the competitiveness of the Farm France, and by making the move upmarket the only solution to the difficulties encountered on international markets, the State is on the wrong track in agricultural matters.
There is urgency because what is lost today will never be recovered. Competitiveness problems have led for several years to a very rapid decline in export market shares while the world market is growing strongly, to a decline in French agricultural production in many sectors and to an explosion of imports into the “core” market.
The conclusion of the analysis of five foodstuffs typical of the plate of the French (apple, tomato, wheat, milk, chicken), is without appeal: without paying sufficient attention to the costs of farmers, without improving the productivity of our upstream agriculture through innovation and investment, without sufficiently defending our producers in free trade agreements, the strategy of the public authorities is pushing farmers into a dead end.
By following this unique strategy of “everything upmarket”, there is a real risk of seeing a collapse of the French agricultural productive potential, to the detriment of our food sovereignty.
Above all, in the long term, this dynamic will lead to French food being reserved for those who can afford it, condemning the most modest to eat imported products. This phenomenon is already visible today.
These two risks, the senators intend to ward off by proposing to rectify the course.
For them, in view of the current context, marked by the concomitance of a purchasing power crisis and a historical increase in the costs of farmers and agri-food industries, the urgency is to reaffirm the imperative of competitiveness. in agriculture. Conducting a policy of controlling farmers’ costs while boosting the attractiveness of French products abroad: these are the remedies prescribed against French agricultural ills.
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