Question 1176 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Gabriel Serville draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the concern expressed by Guyanese farmers regarding the application of the decree of August 31, 2016 specifying the scope and content of the evaluation of agricultural impacts created by the future law for agriculture, food and forestry of October 2014. Indeed, farmers with a project of more than 5,000 m² must now carry out an environmental assessment of the land at their expense, the cost of which is estimated at more than 1,000 euros per hectare. However, if Guyanese farmers share the objective of environmental protection, they raise the question of the advisability of such a measure given the weakness of Guyanese agricultural land which does not exceed 37,000 hectares for a territory which has 8 million. Also, while the carriers of agricultural projects come up against cumbersome administrative procedures, in a context of exponential population growth, he asks them to kindly open discussions with Guyanese farmers so that local specificities are better taken into account in the application of the decree in question.

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