France: Marc Fesneau’s announcements about livestock in Cournon

Marc Fesneau thus announced that a tax exemption system for livestock will be specified “in the coming days” with Bruno Le Maire. The Minister of the Economy is expected at the Livestock Summit on Friday October 6. This measure, requested for several weeks by the FNSEA, aims to cushion the accounting impact of the increase in the value of livestock on farms. “We expect a lot from this measure,” said Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA. The union hopes to obtain a budget of 100 million euros for this tax adaptation. The Minister of Agriculture also announced that he would put 3 million euros on the table to support the breeding sectors in “better communicating on the role of French breeding and its contributions”. “We need livestock to feed us, but also for the transition: carbon storage in meadows, opening of the landscape, preservation of biodiversity,” recalled the minister, who specified that a dedicated measure of 30 million euros per year will be implemented as part of ...