The price of inputs, such as fertilizer, “explodes” for a year, amplified by the war in Ukraine. The Federation of Vegetables Nantais, which claims 5,000 jobs, estimates the extra cost of 100 million euros. It alerts on the risks of failures and rupture of the food supply chain.
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“We are all in the same boat. We only suffer and, every day, the situation empires.” The cry of alarm is signed Jean-François Vinet, codirifant from the market gardening society the three mills, In Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Place, 25 kilometers south of Nantes. The profession, who barely went out the head of the water after the sanitary crisis due to COVID-19, plunges back into the red since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. The equation is untenable: the expenses for agricultural inputs “explode”. Energy invoices flow vertiginuously and, in one year, the price of fertilizers has doubled, and that of other materials needed for production – sand (+ 10%), crop protection film (+ 55%), cartons for packing Goods (+ 35%) – jump also dangerously. CO 2 , used in contribution for greenhouse crops, also sees its price fly (+ 45%).
The alert rating is reached in the country of the chews, the lighthouse that weighs 30,000 annual tonnes, or 85% of domestic production. So much so that Philippe Retiree, President of the Federation of Marchers Nantais, has split from a letter to challenge the prefect and parliamentarians of Loire-Atlantic, but also the Minister of Agriculture, Julien Denormandie, and the first Minister, Jean Castex, on the gravity of the situation. At the scale of 200 Federation’s production companies, or 5,000 full-time equivalent jobs claimed, “the annual cost of up to 100 million euros”, presents Mr Retière, which denounces “inconceivable impact without a revaluation of Price paid to producers lined with direct production support from the state “.
Less produce
SERRIST MARKET IN BOUGUENAIS, 6 kilometers from Nantes, Louis Vinet, specializing in the production of cucumbers, greenhouses. “Agricultural producers are the first link in the chain, he breaths. The war in Ukraine puts us on the ground, we take a little all the increases in the mouth.” The market gardening, which table on an annual production of 6 million cucumbers, has already decided to reduce the wing. “This year, we will do one million pieces less,” he says. We will be forced to heat up the greenhouses, so less producing. We will stop the fees at the end of August instead of pursuing Activity until October, on pain of producing at loss. “
The twenty permanent employees of the company risks being technical unemployed for a month in the fall. And the reinforcement of workers, in full season, will be less than expected: about twenty contracts, against thirty in normal times.
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