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A long chain of specialised skills
A long chain of specialised skills before reaching the consumer
People in the web-footed bird industry represent a wide range of skills leading to the final stage when the product reaches the consumer. These people include:
- Breeders;
- Hatchery operators;
- Food suppliers;
- Livestock farmers;
- Industrial producers;
- Marketing specialists.
Quite often, these experts and professionals are gathered into private or cooperative groups.
The web-footed bird industry represents a market of 30,000 direct jobs and almost 100,000 indirect jobs, throughout the country.
Very well trained professionals
To offer a high-quality product to consumers, the field-level men and women continue to improve their know-howand the techniques used for foie gras production every day.
Fattened web-footed bird breeders benefit from the quality of French agricultural knowledge to ensure their initial and on-going training.
Quite often, from a very young age, breeders also learn all the practical aspects of breeding on their family’s farm holding through a sort of parent-to-child transmission of knowledge.
This is how the remarkable know-how of animals and of production is being kept alive. They are genuine signs of professionalism.
Having spent their lives in the heart of farm holdings, all breeders enjoy a genuine passion for duck and goose breeding.