The Young Farmers of Haute-Garonne have been blocking the Lespinasse fuel depot north of Toulouse since Thursday morning at 9 a.m.
The Young Farmers of Haute-Garonne have been blocking the Lespinasse fuel depot north of Toulouse since Thursday morning at 9 a.m. About fifty demonstrators block access to protest once morest the rise in fuel prices.
“Following these two years of Covid19, the Young Farmers of Haute-Garonne are mobilizing to sound the alarm regarding the increase in the cost of raw materials and oil, in particular GNR, non-road diesel. Victim of globalisation, the agricultural profession cannot compensate for this price increase which, nowadays, constitutes an additional cost, both for farmers and for the rest of consumers” they explain.
Farmers dumped straw and manure.
Straw is dumped in front of the oil depot.
They consume an average of 70,000 liters per year and are heavily impacted by successive increases.
Farmers dumped straw and tires before setting them on fire. They are now planning to dump manure before leaving the site in the early followingnoon.