After a golden decade, lavender producers have been experiencing a violent crisis since the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Production costs are now twice as high as market prices.
As a result, France is experiencing massive overproduction of lavender and lavandin cultivation. Parliament voted last year on a €10 million plan to support the sector, either in the form of grubbing-up subsidies or aid for maintaining crops. The European Commission on Tuesday approved the French aid scheme (for €9 million)