This fight plan, detailed on Friday by the Mayor of Brittany, is to be implemented from 2022 to 2027.
It is a scourge that bothers residents and tourists alike. The state will propose “three-year contracts” to producers and agricultural cooperatives, to encourage them to lower the level of nitrate in the water and thus fight against the proliferation of green algae in the bays of Finistère and Côtes-d’Armor.
A new fight plan must be “finished this fall” and implemented from 2022 to 2027, Brittany Mayor Emmanuel Berthier said on Friday, 10 September. must mobilize “significant additional resources” and it will be co-financed by Europe, the State and water agencies in particular.
Taking into account the criticisms contained in recent Court of Auditors report, this plan aims “mobilize actors who at the time were little mobilized”, mainly agricultural cooperatives, he explained. remembering that there was “Two Types of Incentives: We Regulate or Provide Financial Support”, the mayor specified that this plan would propose “contracts to farmers for a period of three years”.
After three years, “If we get results that we stopped together, this will continue.” “On the other hand, we are in the process of defining the rules that we would impose on operations if contractual results were not achieved”, he said.
Emmanuel Berthier pointed out that the agricultural world was not the only one “relative” by nitrate pollution. “All public and private actors can have an impact on the level of nitrate in water”, he noted, citing in particular sanitation policies.