The Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles (English: National Federation of Agricultural Holders' Unions) is a French umbrella organisation charged with the national representation of 20,000 local
agricultural unions and 22 regional federations.
Establishment
The
Vichy regime
Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its ter ...
's
Peasant Corporation was dissolved after the
Liberation of France
The liberation of France in the Second World War was accomplished through diplomacy, politics and the combined military efforts of the Allied Powers, Free French forces in London and Africa, as well as the French Resistance.
Nazi Germany inv ...
in September 1944, but the unity of agricultural organisations that it had established persisted.
The new Socialist Minister of Agriculture,
François Tanguy-Prigent
François Marie Tanguy Prigent (11 October 1909 – 20 January 1970) was a French Socialist politician who became a resistance fighter during World War II (1939–45).
He was Minister of Agriculture from September 1944 to October 1947 and was Mini ...
, replaced it with a national union of working farmers rather than landowners, the General Confederation of Agriculture (GCA).
In March 1946 the CGA became the Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles (FNSEA).
Many of the former Peasant Corporation leaders became leaders of the FNSEA.
References
Sources
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External links
Official FNSEA website
Trade associations based in France
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