The Finance Bill 2011 decreases by half the amount of the tax credit on income enjoyed by farmers converted to organic farming. The association and react Eco-informants too!
Here indeed an article by Nicolas Klein and Anne-Sophie Novel whose distribution is open to Eco- informants.
Farmers argue the government is declining, how do you, how do you want?
And yet ... organic farmers have received their account at the end of the year! A barely concealed vulgarity to assign a red card to a measure that has gone unnoticed! Christmas and New Year celebrations have been a golden opportunity to get a amendment providing for a 50% tax credit to farmers converted to organic.
Now, this tax credit may not exceed 2 000 euros instead of 4000 so far! You should know that this tax credit is yet the only device to support small organic farms.
A decision in contradiction with the commitments of the Grenelle Environment:
Grenelle Law provides in Article 31 to "promote the production and structuring of this sector to the agricultural land in organic production reaches 6% in 2012 and 20% in 2020."
With a little more 2% of agricultural land for bio in 2010 according to latest figures, France is the laggard of the European organic farming.
"I do nothing to convert organic"
The newspaper Liberation this week published the testimony of an organic farmer in conversion, which decided to does nothing to convert ...
"I do converted into bio nothing! For this farmer Paris region, the future of its operations is outstanding! For two years he has passed 50 of its 238 hectares, located on the Saclay Plateau in Essonne, in organic farming. And had converted all of its land. "But we can not fly at sight, without knowing what they will receive aid next year ... For now, I do not convert more organic. "
If the farmer has little to worry about (the bulk of his aides come finacières aid to surfaces), it is rightly pointed out that the instability of government decisions is problematic.
A major setback that is likely to be reluctant farmers are still facing the issue of conversion or were about to convert to organic.
associations revolt
associations such as Confederation Paysanne , Nature and Progress and the National Federation of organic farming (NBFA) , also resent what they consider to be "a drastic measure at the farm level" against a "tax credit which had the chief merit of putting some justice in attribution aid, especially because it targeted the small structures that do not perceive or very little. "
For FNAB, fifteen farms convert to organic every day in France. A dynamic that could be halved with the new amendment!
The Government confirmed and signed
If the measure is passed unnoticed, the discontent of many associations has been felt, and the government was keen to reaffirm its commitment to organic farming via a joint departments of Ecology and Agriculture, dated January 5, 2011. Bruno Le Maire and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet want to reassure by saying that EU aid and state will''accompagner''French organic production. They stressed that France will receive a 18% increase in aid of the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy), which will amount to 84 million euros (conversion and maintenance) in 2011 against 71 million in 2010.
Organic agriculture: a sustainable solution
remember that organic farming is a practical modern, clean, sustainable
- good for our environment,
- good for our health
- beneficial for job creation can not be relocated.
Break a dynamic yet fragile development will inevitably slow the rise of a virtuous chain that can respond to current challenges ...
Demand for organic products increases, but without a producer, what to do?
The French want more organic products and we are entitled to wonder what he will remain in French organic market to stock up? Imports (France already imports 40% of organic products consumed)? Is this really a desirable and sustainable solution? No way!
Would not it be more coherent to encourage local organic production?
Nature & Progress, the Confederation Paysanne and the National Federation of Organic Agriculture (FNAB) to strongly ask which Ministry of Economy is reviewing its copy, in agreement with the advertisements of Round Table!
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This article was written by Nicolas Klein and Anne-Sophie Novel, and spread open to Eco- informants.
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