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00:00 We can now go across to France 24's Carys Garland standing by on the outskirts of Paris.
00:05 Carys, good morning. What are farmers there telling you?
00:07 Well, first of all, just that red line that you mentioned, the farmers that are here that
00:15 we've spoken to say they have no intention of blocking the Rangis international market.
00:20 It's not too far from where we are now. It's actually more of a strategic,
00:24 a symbolic point of being here in between Orly airport, Paris's second largest airport and the
00:30 Rangis market because if they blocked the produce and deliveries that were coming in and out of that
00:36 market, it would be shooting themselves in the foot, they said. Otherwise, the farmers are very
00:42 much disappointed with what Prime Minister Gabriel Attal had to say during a speech to
00:47 parliament yesterday. They've said that this is all hot air coming out from the Prime Minister
00:54 and from the French president. Other grievances that farmers mentioned to us were things like
01:00 foreign imports, which don't respect the same norms that French produce is subject to here.
01:08 For example, some farmers said that they weren't happy with the imports of lamb from New Zealand,
01:14 for example, and other products that use insecticides or other treatment that's actually
01:21 been banned in France since the 80s. They also pointed to the obviously rising energy costs and
01:28 the cost for farming equipment that they have to contend with, that's eating into their profits.
01:33 And also the price at which supermarkets set their prices for the produce bought from the farmers,
01:41 which one farmer told me they buy at a lower cost from the farmers below the cost of production,
01:47 and then sell at an even higher cost to consumers. And we have to remember that
01:51 these farmers are consumers as well. So these are things that are really eating into their income.
01:57 And Caris, we've seen, of course, this pressure on the government around the capital for a third
02:04 straight day. How long are farmers saying that they're willing to keep up this pressure?
02:13 Well, one thing's for sure, and that's really that there's a sense of determination here. We've seen
02:18 farmers sleeping in their tractors overnight despite the cold. They've got some kind of
02:23 rotation system going where some will go and sleep in a bus that's nearby and then come back down
02:29 here. There's plenty of food. Members of the public and bakers have brought down bread and
02:35 things for the farmers to eat. There's coffee. There's fire going a little bit behind me to
02:39 keep everyone warm. And one farmer told me that they've got enough supplies to last a month. So
02:46 really, I think they're waiting, hoping as soon as possible that the government will respond with
02:52 some concrete answers to their demands. But for the moment, they say they'll stay put for as long
02:58 as it takes. Caris, thank you very much for that, Caris Garland reporting there.