This “fund of 80 million euros will make it possible to cover both harvest losses but also investment losses which would not be covered by insurance subjects” and is intended for farmers affected in November by storms and by the floods in Brittany, Normandy and Hauts-de-France, declared Marc Fesneau, Minister of Agriculture, on Franceinfo, Wednesday November 15.
“We created a fund that allows us to avoid (…) holes in the racket” in dealing with the damage, added Marc Fesneau. Storms Ciaran and Domingos, then the precipitation which caused rivers to overflow in Hauts-de-France, severely affected farmers in these regions, who had greenhouses uprooted, buildings flooded or crops under water.
An “exceptional support fund” for farmers was mentioned during a trip by Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to Pas-de-Calais. Without giving an amount, Marc Fesneau specified in the evening on
On Franceinfo on Wednesday, he put the number of farms in the north of France at “around a hundred” which had “flooded buildings but there are also flooded lands, flooded crops”. He added that “two hundred cattle” had perished, “drowned by the too sudden rise in water” and that there were, “without doubt”, several thousand hectares “of sugar beet crops” which could not not be harvested. “From the recession, we will have a more complete vision of the extent of the damage,” underlined the minister.