<p>Grain growers are the latest French farm sector to voice anger over a broad decline in farmgate prices, and their protest will be another thorn in the side of President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose approval ratings are hovering around all-time lows. <br /><br />Nearly 10,000 grain farmers, backed up by over 1,300 tractors — according to figures provided by leading farm union FNSEA — converged on Paris before starting a demonstration that is due to take them from the Nation square to the Republic and Bastille squares. </p>.<p>“Demonstrators came to express, on the eve of the EU farm commissioner’s visit, the distress of a sector and the crisis that agriculture is facing,” FNSEA Secretary General Dominique Barrau tsaid as tractors gathered around Nation square.</p>.<p> France’s cereal growers, among the most productive in the world, say a cut in subsidies and the prospect of another bumper harvest will aggravate already low prices and increase losses. <br /></p>
<p>Grain growers are the latest French farm sector to voice anger over a broad decline in farmgate prices, and their protest will be another thorn in the side of President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose approval ratings are hovering around all-time lows. <br /><br />Nearly 10,000 grain farmers, backed up by over 1,300 tractors — according to figures provided by leading farm union FNSEA — converged on Paris before starting a demonstration that is due to take them from the Nation square to the Republic and Bastille squares. </p>.<p>“Demonstrators came to express, on the eve of the EU farm commissioner’s visit, the distress of a sector and the crisis that agriculture is facing,” FNSEA Secretary General Dominique Barrau tsaid as tractors gathered around Nation square.</p>.<p> France’s cereal growers, among the most productive in the world, say a cut in subsidies and the prospect of another bumper harvest will aggravate already low prices and increase losses. <br /></p>
