Heavy rainfall causes severe harvest impact and losses for French farmers
Persistent rainfall in France is reducing soft wheat production, resulting in a high decrease in the overall harvest and substantial losses for individual farmers.
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00:00This year s harvest has been considered as one of the worst in years by French farmers
00:07who are struggling to maintain their fields following storms and strong winds which have
00:13destroyed much of their wheat. Nicolas Payou is the president of the Andres
00:18Chamber of Agriculture and he says they are suffering great losses.
00:23As well as fighting diseases that are affecting their crops, farmers are trying to adapt to
00:42climate change, but they say it's difficult as it is so unpredictable.
00:53On the whole, the loss of French cereal production is estimated at 13%.