Bordeaux wine-makers are heading for a “great” vintage this year after an unusually warm growing season and exceptionally dry summer and harvest, according to Olivier Bernard, whose family owns Domaine de Chevalier in Pessac-Leognan south of the city.

The French motorways have been blocked by demonstrators delaying deliveries. In Spain, there is currently a predominance of small sizes and the rising competition from Turkey is taking a toll. 

South Africa has a slim window to benefit from the European market before litchis from Madagascar arrive. The first litchis from Malelane are flown to Europe where France, in particular, through its long association with Indian Ocean islands, loves the fruit.

The French government recently announced an ambitious research programme as part of its plan to fight for the survival of its declining vineyards. Here's a look at the reason behind the project. For any wine fans out there, it may come as a surprise that something so synonymous with France is battling to survive.

It’s a warm afternoon in late spring and before us rows of strawberry plants rustle in the breeze as the scent of fragrant herbs wafts across the air. Nearby, a bee buzzes lazily past.

The revenue of the lucerne meal and pellets market in the European Union is estimated at $391M in 2018, an increase of 2.4% y-o-y. This figure reflects the total revenues of producers and importers (excluding logistics costs, retail marketing costs, and retailers' margins, which will be included in the final consumer price). 

The strawberry sector is suffering the impact of the coronavirus. Since consumers currently prefer fruit with a longer shelf life, strawberries are ignored.

French winemakers will transform wine that went unsold during the country's two-month coronavirus lockdown into hand sanitiser and ethanol to make room for the next harvest, a farming agency said on Thursday.

France is traditionally an important player on the world’s grains market, supplying a range of markets, particularly in the nearby countries of North Africa, with which it has a close trading relationship.

A French government forecast shows the 2021 wine harvest could be the smallest vintage for at least 50 years.

France is preparing to remove around 28,000 hectares of vineyards under a state-backed programme aimed at rebalancing supply and demand, as reported by The Connexion. The initiative, administered by FranceAgriMer, has drawn approximately 5,800 applications from growers seeking financial support to uproot vines.

Blame it on long-term weather cycles, climate change or just plain bad luck, Western Europe is suffering through a serious drought that has been centered on France.

France, the European Union’s largest wheat producer and exporter, in recent years has faced a series of difficult harvests and a drop in exports. So far this year, it has experienced significant dryness in late winter and early spring.

In June 2022, scientists, researchers, policy makers and journalists came together at the World Living Soils Forum in Arles-en-Provence, with the goal of learning more about soil.

France is about to destroy enough wine to fill more than 100 Olympic-size swimming pools. And it’s going to cost the nation about $216 million.

Already bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, Europe’s farmers are speaking out against policies they say are contradictory, unfair and leave them worried for the future.

Of the frosts there is no doubt—what is yet unknown is the extent of the damage.

“We will know more once the insurance companies’ damage assessors have completed

The production of wine in France is estimated to decline by 18% year-on-year and 11% against a five-year average, according to figures from the French government’s agricultural statistics department.

In a High-Level Meeting on the future of wine policy, the CEEV recently presented its strategic vision and potential solutions for how the industry can tackle current and future challenges—primarily declining consumption, rising costs, and climate change to the European Commission.

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