Frédéric Hébert, Managing Director of CFAO Mobility, and Benoît Sarraute, CEO of Sipem, during the signing of the partnership in Anosizato. |
A step towards the development of the automotive sector. Access to car credit is being made easier for individuals. CFAO Mobility, concessionaire, joins forces with Sipem bank. A partnership that both parties describe as “strategic”. The financing offers offered by the bank will provide a wider choice to the customer when it comes to paying for a car from the dealership. The bank will finance up to 90% of the total price of the vehicle if we believe the explanations provided by the General Director of Sipem yesterday in Anosizato during the signing of this partnership with CFAO Motors.
“The idea of this car loan, called ‘fiarantsika’, is to finance at the point of sale and to facilitate access to our joint customers who are going to buy a car at the same time as they are going to complete their financing », Explains Benoît Sarraute, Managing Director of Sipem bank. For the stakeholders of this partnership, the customer sees himself spoiled because, in addition to being able to afford a car, with competitive interest rates, and a repayment period of up to sixty months, he will be personally supported in their choices and preferences. These are all-in-one packaged offers, with different variations and financing offers matched to the needs and specificities of each portfolio. For the Suzuki range, for example, the entry-level price will be thirty-eight thousand ariary per day.
For Frédéric Hébert, Managing Director of CFAO Mobility Madagascar, it is a partnership where the activities come together at one point. “We are a leader in automobile distribution in Madagascar, Sipem for its part is a bank which is recognized in its field as being a partner bank for individuals and businesses,” he confides on the sidelines of the press conference organized for launch this new product. The financing will provide access to a wide range of new vehicles at CFAO, ranging from small city cars to SUVs and station wagons. Cars that are guaranteed for five years, or one hundred and fifty thousand kilometers.
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Cherry growers fear for their survival now that pesticides are no longer allowed
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Buy Dutch cherries from a roadside stand, directly from the orchard or at the market, the question is whether that will still be available this summer. Cherry growers are no longer allowed to combat an exotic fruit fly this season with two commonly used products and fear a crop failure.
The so-called Suzuki fruit fly has been a pest in cherry cultivation for years. The flies can lay eggs in the growing cherries, which cause them to rot. The invasive insects were first discovered in the Netherlands in 2012 and have since quickly spread across the country. Combating it is difficult.
Until now, growers have been granted an exemption every year for the use of two crop protection products, Exirel and Tracer. The fruit growers also submitted an exemption request to the Ministry of Agriculture for this year, but it recently rejected the request, to the dismay of the more than a hundred Dutch cherry growers.
Instructions not followed
The ministry says it bases its decision on negative advice from the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA). In recent years, it carried out checks on cherry growers and it turned out that they did not comply with “the regulations for the safe application of pesticides”, according to a ministry spokesperson.
Incorrect use of protective equipment poses a danger to surface water, he explains. The Netherlands has set itself the goal of improving the quality of that water. In addition, bees that pollinate the cherries can encounter problems due to incorrect use of protective equipment.
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“It is a very unpleasant message for growers,” says the spokesperson. The ministry informed the Dutch Fruit Growers Organization (NFO) last week. The trade association first tried behind the scenes to change the minister’s mind, says chairman Ron Mulders, but without success. That is why the growers are now publicly sounding the alarm.
“We do not go to the Binnenhof with the tractor, that is not our style, but we do want to prevent this beautiful industry from going to the Philistines,” says Mulders. “We know that we face challenges as a fruit sector, but the pace of decisions is now faster than we can keep up with. Then you are playing with the continuity of the sector.”
Crossing the border is allowed
“This decision hits us hard,” says cherry grower Arie Oosterom, who has been running an orchard in Harmelen with his family for decades. During the season they sell cherries in the farm shop near the orchard and in various other places in the area. In about five weeks they thought they would be able to harvest their first cherries of the year.
That plan is now in doubt. In a few weeks, the family would have wanted to protect the cherries against the Asian fruit fly with the permitted pesticides, as in previous years. “If that is not allowed, our entire harvest will be destroyed,” says Oosterom emotionally. “This is the only option to combat the fruit fly. We cannot do anything about the fact that the fly came to the Netherlands.”
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Mulders calls it “unfortunate” that Exirel and Tracer are allowed in other European countries, such as Germany and Belgium. “Cherry growers in South Limburg and Zeeland can almost see how their colleagues across the border are allowed to use pesticides, while they are being driven into bankruptcy here. Do we really want to get cherry growers out of the Netherlands?”
Hurry
It is also difficult that there are hardly any alternative control methods available for fruit growers; Organic farmers also use Tracer. “We really do our best to do it well,” says Oosterom. “We have just invested in a new sprayer for the tractor and we are putting nets around the trees.”
With only weeks to go before growers want to spray their cherries, there is a need for haste. Mulders represents a hundred fruit farmers with his NFO and is busy approaching members of the House of Representatives. He hopes that they will be able to convince Agriculture Minister Adema to still allow the use of the pesticides this year.
Cherry growers fear for their survival now that pesticides are no longer allowed
Campaigning in the American steel capital, Biden attacks Chinese competition
2024-04-18 04:49:03
Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he wanted to triple customs duties on steel and aluminum from China, a political choice aimed at the American working class whom he is trying to seduce this week by campaigning in Pennsylvania.
The Democrat accused Beijing of “cheating” in the global steel trade, harming American manufacturers and their employees, a key electorate for the November presidential election which will see him face, barring any surprises, his rival Donald Trump .
“They are xenophobic,” Joe Biden said in a speech from the headquarters of the USW in Pittsburgh, the historic US steel capital.
The Democrat lamented that Chinese steel companies “don’t have to worry about making a profit because the Chinese government subsidizes them heavily.”
“They are not competing, they are cheating. And we have seen the damage here in America,” said the man who claims to be the best ally of American workers.
“I am not looking for a confrontation with China, I want competition, but fair competition,” Joe Biden further clarified, assuring that there would be no “trade war” with Beijing.
Blue-collar campaign
With one voice, unions and employers welcomed these protectionist measures.
The United Steelworkers (USW) thanked him for his “aggressive” action to defend their jobs.
The union announced last month to support the Democrat for the November election, accusing his opponent Donald Trump of “dismantling workers’ rights”, he who nevertheless presents himself as the champion of the revival of the American manufacturing industry.
More than 40% of manufacturing jobs have been lost since 1990 in Pennsylvania, the historic heart of American industry and one of the six key states which could, in November, swing the outcome of the election.
US Steel, the American steel giant, based in this state, said it “applauds” Joe Biden’s announcement, as did the sector’s employers’ organization. The Democrat repeated on Wednesday his opposition to its takeover by the Japanese Nippon Steel.
The day before Tuesday, Joe Biden had called from his hometown of Scranton for a tax increase for the richest, marking the contrast with Donald Trump. The latter was “very busy at the moment”, tackled the Democrat on Wednesday, referring to the trial which is keeping the billionaire busy in New York.
The Democrat is shown campaigning on the ground, three days of media footage focused on Pennsylvania and its white working electorate.
“False accusations”
But, while Donald Trump has long defended an increase in customs duties against China, his campaign team denounced on Wednesday a timely change of heart by the Democrat.
“Joe Biden has spent his entire career betraying American workers,” a spokesperson for the Republican wrote in a statement. The measures announced Wednesday “are too weak and come too late,” added Karoline Leavitt.
The Democrat prides himself on being at the origin, with a huge law to promote green industry, of the doubling of investments for new factories in the United States since his arrival in power in January 2021, and the creation of nearly 80,000 manufacturing jobs.
And to protect them, the current president called on his Trade Representative (USTR) on Wednesday to “consider tripling the current customs duties”, of 7.5% on average, imposed on part of the steel and Chinese aluminum imported into the United States.
The Biden administration also announced an investigation into Chinese measures in “the shipbuilding, shipping and logistics sectors.”
Beijing quickly denounced “false accusations”.
The American investigation “wrongly interprets normal trade and investment activities as being harmful to national security and the interests of American companies,” the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in a statement. The United States “blames China for its own industrial problems.”
The American announcements come against a backdrop of strong rivalry with China, despite renewed dialogue between the two countries.
Asked whether these announcements would endanger the relationship he is trying to maintain with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Joe Biden replied “No. »
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