Vaucluse: farmers denounce unfair but legal competition from Moroccan tomatoes

“More than 400 boxes of cherry tomatoes were imported from Morocco on Thursday and this morning, in my opinion, nothing came out,” said Jean-Pierre Perez on Friday morning, April 26, with photos in hand. to carry out a manual check of the stables. Under the surveillance of the hypermarket’s security services, the twenty members of the FNSEA could only note the presence of beautiful tomatoes of “French origin” on the shelves. These farmers also asked to take a look in the refrigerators where they discovered pallets of Moroccan cherry tomatoes with the inscription Azura…

“We need imports. Tomatoes are the first vegetable consumed. We know that we cannot produce enough of them in winter. The problem is that we can meet the needs in production in March,” Claire Merland explained for FNSEA 84, specifying that the action would not be violent and would consist of placing small stickers on imported products, where the origin is often difficult to read “After people have made their choice, we will provide more information to the consumer. Nowadays, one in two tomatoes is imported. Everything is done to fool the consumer, who must be clearly informed. Moroccan tomatoes are unfair but legal competition.” Feeling that they had been duped, the members of the FNSEA planned future actions.