Mobilization of farmers in Toulouse: disruptions to be expected this Tuesday
Farmers from all over the department are mobilized this Tuesday. They will go to Toulouse to request the cancellation of the modification of certain zonings. Disturbances are to be expected on the Toulouse ring road.
Take your precautions if you are driving on the Toulouse ring road this Tuesday: there is a significant risk of traffic jams!
From 8 am, about sixty tractors from all over the department will go to Toulouse. All axes are concerned. Farmers are expected at the Departmental Directorate of Haute-Garonne territories around 9:30 a.m. to voice their complaints. The reasons for their anger? The end of the derogation on the clay zone and the modification of certain zonings.
“Additional Charges”
“Currently, we are classified as a vulnerable zone, which imposes constraints: the establishment of covered plants on certain crops, and the impossibility of working on our land before November 1. Fortunately we benefit from a derogation which allows us not to be subject to it, ”summarizes Thomas Klunker, co-secretary general within the Young farmers of Haute-Garonne.
This risk is likely to disappear: the clay content of the soil required to benefit from it is 25%, or, this rate will now be set at 37%, most farmers will no longer be eligible. “For example, because of this new standard, I will have to sow cover on 100 hectares, knowing that one hectare of cover costs 150 euros, this represents additional additional costs. Moreover, I will be required to have results. »
Manure on the ring road?
Farmers will be received at 11 a.m. “by the competent authorities”. If their demands are not heard, they “will take consistent action”.
“We are ready to dump manure, and cut the device if we are not heard! In the current context where our farms continue to have money, we no longer have a choice, we will not hesitate to enter into a balance of power. »