French farmers will fallow French highways by pouring soil onto them

 French farmers have staged significant protests, blocking major highways out of Paris and other roads across the country. This action, launched over a week ago in the Occitanie region in the south of France, aimed to draw attention to the various problems faced by farmers. The blockades, which involved around 1,000 farmers and over 500 vehicles, affected tractors gathered on eight routes around the capital.

Protesting farmers demand simplification of administrative procedures, oppose the European Green Deal, which aims to reduce the use of pesticides and forced fallow of 4% of land, and demand a reduction in the price of diesel oil for tractors and better application of the law forcing producers and supermarkets to real prices for agricultural products and not replaced by foreign production, which does not have to meet the crazy EU requirements, which destroys any competitiveness of European farmers.

French farmers, as part of a protest against the agricultural policy of the European Union and the government in Paris, carried out significant actions, blocking several highways in the vicinity of Lyon, Toulouse and Paris. One of their forms of protest was filling highways with earth, which was captured on video and spread on social media. Farmers said that they would follow 4% of the highways and demonstratively fill them with agricultural land.

These actions are part of wider roadblocks that took place in 25 locations across France. Protesting farmers also try to block access to supermarkets, which was visible, among others, in Beaucaire, where a group of men arrived in tractors and blocked Lidl's logistics platform. The protests are also a response to falling farmers' incomes, rising costs, bureaucratic burdens and competition related to food imports from abroad.

Moreover, farmers' protests in France are also considered a symptom of rural dissatisfaction in other European Union countries. The influential and subsidized agricultural sector has become a hot topic before the European Parliament elections, and right-wing parties hope to use farmers' emotions in their election campaigns.

Farmers are expressing their dissatisfaction with declining incomes, growing bureaucracy and crazy environmental policies that they believe undermine their ability to compete effectively with farmers in other countries. Additionally, the death of a farmer who was hit by a car in the morning during a protest intensified emotions among French protesters. French authorities are facing increasing pressure to find solutions to these problems, although talks with farmers' trade unions have not led to a breakthrough so far.

These farmer protests in France are part of a larger phenomenon of discontent in the agricultural sector, which is also seen in other European Union countries such as Belgium, Germany, Poland and Romania.