Saving in Seine-et-Marne

Infrastructures

Some statistical data as regards transport: 590 km of trunk roads, 4.020 km of secondary roads, 210 km of highways (5 different: A4, A5, A6, A77 and A104), 2 stations TGV, 4 lines the RER (has, B, D, E) which serves from Paris, Melun, Tournan-in-Brie, Marne-the-Valley and the Aéroport Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle, 290 km of inland waterways for more than 2.000 km of river. These figures are given by a governmental study (report/ratio of ODEC dated June 17th, 2004), but the Préfecture announces some alternatives: 620 km of trunk roads and 6.000 km of secondary roads. Only DDE appears ready to slice this different.

Agriculture

The Agriculture occupies 60% of the territory with 343.000 ha for 3.242 exploitations. 451 of them counts more than 200 ha. Exceptional outputs in Corn (150.000 ha), Corn, Beet, Oleaginous Barley and . Half of this production is exported with the international one. Dairy production of 300.000 hl for 150 exploitations supported by the production of cheese of Brie.

In spite of this solid bases agricultural, the Seine-et-Marne suffered to take the turn of the agro-industrial one. More than 5.000 people are employed in this sector. Two sugar refineries replace today the myriad of establishments which formerly treated beet: Nangis and Castle-Landon.

Producing of very poor wines quickly abandoned as soon as the railroad allowed a better movement of the goods through the country, the Seine-et-Marne redécouvre recently a heart vigneronne. Some vineyards of modest dimensions produce wines which do not have anything any more commun run with the bad communion wine produces here until the middle of the XIXe century.

The culture of the pink is old and Provins is essential, since 1240, like the capital of the pinks. The pinks constitute a perfect culture of substitution for the farmers of the XIXe century who then tore off their a few vines. It is the extension of a kind of valley of the pinks which runs of Layered branches to the doors of Paris. Today still, this production remains important.

Among the other specialities of the department it is advisable here to quote the Moutarde of Meaux tested and approved for the first time by a King de France as of the 13th century. The receipt is still held secret by the only establishment which produces approximately 1,5 per annum million pots.

Exploitation of the basement

The basement is rich and the Seine-et-Marne represents a quarter of the Pétrole extracts in France (0,45 million tons, is the 2 days equivalent of French consumption).

87 careers are listed on the departmental territory. This figure exceeds 150 if one includes all the processing sites of the basement. The Gypsum, clay, the gravels and sand are in particular exploited. Extremely of these richnesses, the Seine-et-Marne lodges some companies of foreground in the field of the transformation of these raw materials: Lafarge (cement) and Villeroy & Bosch (ceramics) in particular.

Thanks to the geothermic exploitation: 50000 people are heated in Meaux and more: 3000 residences are concerned in Melun.

Industries

The industrial tradition of the department is old. Let us quote here the Meunier chocolate based with Noisiel, the metallurgy with Montereau-Fault-Yonne or the industry of glass of the valley of Loing. The oil refinery of Grandpuits, the research center of SNECMA to Melun-Villaroche and the multitude of centers of logistics are from now on the strong points of the industry of the department.

Tertiary sector and tourism

Let us not forget the new cities of Sénart and Marne-the-Valley which has in their luggage some very beautiful industrial florets but which are announced especially by their tertiary sector in the financial fields and of communication mainly.

The Tourisme holds its row with more than 14.000 hotel rooms and some sites remarkable like the castles of Fontainebleau or Be worth-the-Viscount, the medieval quoted of Layered branches and the Parc Disneyland in particular. Tourism represents 21.000 employment in the department.

Social problems

The rate of Chômage is established to 7,7% of the active population to the December 31st 2003, inferior of two points to those of the France and the Île-de-France to 9,7%. One estimates at 10.000 the number of allocatees of RMI.

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