Hundreds of tractor-driving farmers drove from across France into the capital of Paris on Wednesday to protest government policies relating to distribution prices and criticism of pesticide usage and animal welfare.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government is leaving us exposed, let us work,\u201d one farmer wrote on his tractor.<\/p>\n
The demonstration is being staged by the two main farm unions, which called for a meeting with\u00a0President Emmanuel Macron<\/a>\u00a0to express concerns about government policies they say harm French\u00a0agriculture<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to warn everyone that if there are no more farmers in France it has a knock on effect on the French economy,\u201d 29-year-old farmer Alix Heurtaut told Reuters in an interview earlier this week.<\/p>\n