In Ardèche and part of Drôme, apricot producers have lost 70 to 100% of their production. The president of the AOP peaches and apricots of France explained that his 2024 harvest would represent 60% of that of 2023.
The Bergeron variety, for example, needs 8,000 hours of cold per year to flower in spring. All agricultural land will have to “migrate to the North’ in the decades to come, according to Agroclimat2050 founder Serge Zakka, who is also a doctor in agroclIMatology and founder of AgroClimat 2050. The same goes for apricots, says Zakka: “The little that remains, since everything has already fallen. The little that is left of the fruit falls as soon as you touch it, the farmer says, adding that 80% of his trees have almost no fruit left.