2023-07-30 10:39:00
Impressed and surprised by the shape of this beautiful heifer, the European Commissioner for Agriculture stops. The beast is magnificent, but its musculature, for a Blanc Bleu, is nothing extraordinary. Not in the eyes of the Polish Janusz Wojciechowski who did not know this bovine breed which is the pride of our country. A breed sought following for its meat, and whose semen is exported to 55 countries. Simon Noppen, managing director of the Belgian Blue Group, extolled the strengths of the Blanc Bleu, ” the greenest breed, it is the one that produces the least methane with regard to meat intake“. A White Blue Green project is also underway and is exploring ways to sustainably reduce methane emissions in the beef production sector.
This Saturday, the European Commissioner for Agriculture discovered the Libramont Fair for the first time. Going to the largest open-air agricultural fair in Europe is in a way a must when exercising this function.
“Hi Willy, how are you?”
In the aisles, no one recognized the European commissioner, including professionals in the sector. It must be admitted that his face is hardly known to the general public. The Polish Janusz Wojciechowski, visited the fair, accompanied by the Walloon Minister of Agriculture Willy Borsus. He, on the other hand, is regularly arrested. “Hi Willy, how are you? “. Bursts of laughter and handshakes are followed by a quick presentation by the European Commissioner.
On the fairground, the regional minister seems at home. He has been walking the length and breadth of it for two days, inaugurating left and right, becoming Julien Lapraille’s clerk, meeting breeders, presenting the champions’ prizes at the Blanc Bleu competition. It’s very simple, we see it everywhere! Except this Sunday followingnoon, where he had to go to Francorchamps, for the F1 Grand Prix, with his hat as regional Minister of the Economy. The big gap between the mud of the competition rings and the splendor of the VIP lounges in the paddocks.
Operation seduction
Let’s get back to our sheep, finally to our breeders. In front of the agricultural unions, the European commissioner assured him, he has no intention, nor Europe, of reducing animal production. “It is very important to support the sector“, he continues. A reassuring speech. “Ouiagrees Marianne Streel, president of the Walloon Federation of Agriculture. At the Copa (Committee of Professional Agricultural Organizations in the European Union), This is another thing !“At the Fair, it’s “operation seduction”.
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