“Our customers save us. There is a lot of solidarity, ”says a farmer

"If, in compensation for the closure of the markets , the government had imposed a floor price on supermarkets for purchases of fruit and vegetables from independent producers, the measure would have been perfect. But that was not the case, unfortunately. ” Hit hard by the latest containment measures, Thierry de Puymaurin, a farmer in Lavernose, about thirty kilometers southwest of Toulouse, had, in four days, to completely reorganize his sales circuit. "It was that or dying," he says.

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With Cyrille Bernard and Thibaut de Vulpillières, his two partners from Terradoc, Thierry de Puymaurin has been cultivating more than 400 hectares of cereals and around twenty vegetable crops for twenty-five years. The production of its 8 hectares of asparagus requires two permanent employees and seven seasonal workers from March to June, the harvest period. “We organized the sale by opening a store in a wing of the farm. We added 4 hectares of strawberries, another

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