The minister also confirmed that a “significant portion” of the agricultural component of the recovery plan will be devoted to “adapt our crops to climate change”.
They have also been victims of the drought. The government will allow opening of the regime of compensation for “disaster” for farmers and herders, which should also benefit other aids for the cash emergency such as some tax rebates, announced Friday the minister of Agriculture Julien Denormandie.
“We take exceptional measures to assist farmers in the face of drought episodes, which continue to repeat”, said on Franceinfo the minister has also confirmed that a “significant portion” of the agricultural component of the recovery plan of the economy to be announced on the 25th of August will be devoted to “adapt our crops to climate change”.
early Payment of instalments
“For all the departments which could come from the “agricultural calamity”, the minister has indicated that he would be “very vigilant” so that the farmers concerned can benefit. “When is this happening ? At the end of the drought episode, we see the consequences of yield reductions and we make those statements (…) which give rise then to the accompaniments financial”, said the minister without giving the amount of the budget.
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In the emergency measures, in addition to the green light to the use of fallow land to feed the cattle and the shift of planting dates imposed by the common agricultural policy (CAP), already announced, the minister has referred to the advance payment of instalments of “higher” of the CAP, and concessions on the land tax paid by farmers” in the worst-affected areas.
At the beginning of the week, the president of the farmers union Modef Pierre Thomas had requested the activation of the national fund for agricultural risk management (FNGRA) to compensate farmers exposed to the damage of the drought. The president of the FNSEA, Christiane Lambert had also sought relief for the charging or depending repayments bank for agricultural enterprises.
“Preparing for the future”
“beyond these measurements of very short-term, agronomic and financial, it is especially necessary to prepare for the future, it is the objective of the recovery plan, or a significant proportion of the agricultural component of the recovery plan will be devoted to the adaptation of european agriculture to the effects of climate change,” the minister added. In this panel, he cited three examples : the financing of the purchase of materials to protect against hail, the funding of research to find seeds that are more adapted to climate change, and improving the management of resources, in particular water.
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“After the drought, there are thunderstorms, very violent, hail: today, we have materials to protect against these phenomena, which are expensive, it is necessary to be able to finance them to support our farmers,” added the minister, who goes in two farms of Haute-Garonne this Friday. For water management, Julien Denormandie has deemed “absolutely not normal” that a project for the construction of retention pond water may “take 8 to 10 years” and spoke of “simplification measures” to engage “in consultation” in order to avoid “conflicts of use”.
