France faces ‘catastrophic’ 30-year low in wheat yields - France 24
France, the European Union's biggest grain producer, is heading for its worst wheat harvest in three decades due to heavy rains and lack of sunlight, the agriculture ministry said Friday.
“Not only are volumes very low, but prices are at rock bottom as harvests have been very good elsewhere, notably in Ukraine, Romania and Russia,” Gautier le Molgat, head of French agricultural trading firm Agritel, told Franch daily Le Figaro on Tuesday.
"We are seeing unimaginably catastrophic conditions" for farmers, the Orana farmers union warned last week.
Some farms are bracing for a 75 percent drop in turnover, the farming union said.
(Ok, more of my tax money to go to poor starving French farmers ... )
France, the European Union's biggest grain producer, is heading for its worst wheat harvest in three decades due to heavy rains and lack of sunlight, the agriculture ministry said Friday.
“Not only are volumes very low, but prices are at rock bottom as harvests have been very good elsewhere, notably in Ukraine, Romania and Russia,” Gautier le Molgat, head of French agricultural trading firm Agritel, told Franch daily Le Figaro on Tuesday.
"We are seeing unimaginably catastrophic conditions" for farmers, the Orana farmers union warned last week.
Some farms are bracing for a 75 percent drop in turnover, the farming union said.
(Ok, more of my tax money to go to poor starving French farmers ... )