FNSEA and renewables union agree to push these energies in the agricultural sector

The objective is to establish a channel for regular dialogue, "for the development of renewables in reconciliation with the interests of the agricultural sector".

"Faced with the double challenge of energy transition and climate change which particularly affects the rural world, (...) the development (of renewable energies) must accelerate, it is an opportunity for the agricultural world", underlined the president of the main agricultural union, Christiane Lambert.

"This memorandum of understanding will make it possible to strengthen the dialogue between the two sectors", she said, stressing the importance of "consolidating" these objectives from now on, of disseminating good practices, of adapting them to the context of each department. .

Energy can now represent 12 to 20% of the variable costs of farms, and they have increased by more than 20% in one year, she underlined, also noting that fears of a shortage this winter have still "promoted the acceptance" of these infrastructures.

Anaerobic digestion (biogas and electricity), biofuels, solar... agriculture contributes to producing 20% ​​of renewable energies in France, estimates the FNSEA, and it could, according to Ademe, double this production by 2030 and triple it by 2050.

The charter signed Thursday is "a political signal that says that we can agree, that there is no opposition between food and energy production", said Jules Nyssen, the president of the SER.

Among the subjects, the emergence of technologies such as agrivoltaism, which makes it possible to protect crops from heat or cold while producing energy.

Or the biomass available to produce agrofuels and biogas, quoted Mr. Nyssen. "Everyone wants to use biomass, but we will have to find a balance, so as not to build strategies that do not correspond to reality".