“Let’s bet that the fall in prices will be recorded in the coming months, but once again, today’s indicators that we are seeing do not measure that fall,” said Arnaud Rousseau on the occasion of his first television appearance the day after his election. at the head of the National Federation of Peasant Unions (FNSEA).
In France, inflation reached 5.7% in March in a year, driven mainly by rising food prices, according to INSEE. In detail, in one year, food prices inflated by 15.9% in March (after 14.8% in February) and this increase affects both fruit and vegetables and non-fresh products such as bread , cereals, meat, cheese, chocolate or drinks.
“Prices can fall, and that is the objective, since all the links in the chain, be it the producer, the processor, will have the means to pass on the reductions” in production costs, he said.
Inflation continues to weigh on companies
On the inflation front, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, criticized on Tuesday, April 11, at the Europe 1 microphone, his anger at prices that are slowly falling while those of raw materials, freight and energy have been falling for several months .
“I think that Bruno Le Maire wants pressure to accompany the fall that we are observing but I am telling you that at the time we are speaking, it is not objective in the figures of the companies”, underlines the new head of the FNSEA for his part. .
“The drop in prices will be when farmers can earn money and live from their profession and, above all, in general, the drop in prices will be the choice of what the French put on their plates,” he said. slapped
Source: BFM TV
