An eventful opening for the Agricultural Show. For the organizers of the Parisian event, this day will even go down in history. “It is a special day,” reacted the director of the National Center for Agricultural Exhibitions and Competitions (Ceneca), owner and organizer of the Agricultural Show, in an interview with AFP. “We have never experienced anything like this. We have never seen it before,” said Arnaud Lemoine on Saturday, February 24.
The first day of this Agricultural Show, its sixtieth edition in 2024, was marked by clashes around the arrival of Emmanuel Macron.
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“I feel a double form of sadness: a sadness at seeing that the discomforts and problems of the agricultural world are not resolved, hence this expressed anger” and “a sadness as the organizer of the show at seeing this first day wasted,” lamented Arnaud. Lemoine. “We knew it would be complicated, but not at this level,” he stressed, referring to a delay in the opening of more than six hours of pavilion 1, which houses cows, pigs and sheep.
For the remainder of the Agricultural Exhibition, which will open its doors until Sunday, March 3, the director of Ceneca called for moving “from this sad day to happy days.” With an expected 600,000 visitors this year, the traditional agricultural meeting in Paris is one of the biggest events in France. “There are still 14-year-old children who don’t know where milk comes from. We are a link between society and the agricultural world,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
