More than 200,000 people have responded to the call launched
by the government in France to help farmers harvest crops in the absence of
seasonal workers in the country, the agriculture ministry announced Tuesday.
"Today we have more than 200,000 volunteers," said
the French Minister of Agriculture, Didier Guillaume, in an interview with the
France 2 network.
"We are not going to make these people cross the
country, they are going to work near their homes, near the farmers, but also in
the food industry, transportation and logistics," he said.
"It is very important to make sure that these products
get where they can be sold," he added.
Guillaume appealed last month to the French who became
unemployed due to confinement by the coronavirus to go to the fields to help
farmers in need of labor.
"I call the women and men who are not working, who are
homebound, waiters, receptionists, hairdressers, all whose businesses are
closed ... and ask them to join the great agricultural army of France," he
said.
"We must produce to feed the French," he said. It
is "a citizen act," he added.
With the closure of the borders, farmers have been left
without the temporary workers who usually come from Spain or from countries in
Eastern Europe.
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