The restrictions imposed upon us are part of the problem that we are dealing with today. In the short-term, we need money, but in the medium and long-term, we need answers. The region’s producers have bought stock and seed. This problem affects all of the production lines.
What can we do to sustain the markets that we have to protect? It isn’t easy to meet with a major client and tell him that we don’t know what’s going on, that we can’t give him any answers and that we don’t even know whether we will be able to produce next year. This is the problem we are facing. If you come with me tomorrow to negotiate with these people, I’m not sure that you would talk to them about the nematodes in Saint-Amable. They would ask you what nematodes are and you would have to tell them that they can survive in the soil for 40 years. They would conclude that we would not be able to produce next year and they’d take their business elsewhere.