“We are lucky, there is a drop of dew there.
Do you see her?
jokes Vincent Duval, pointing to a droplet camouflaged in a cabbage leaf.
“We haven't seen any for a long time,” he exclaims before gently pouring it into the heart of the vegetable.
Around him stretches a disparate field of cabbages.
If the first rows are well furnished, the rosettes of leaves are rare at the bottom of the ground.
“A package is missing,” comments the market gardener.
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Operator of the La Rivoise farm for thirty years, Vincent Duval claims to have never experienced a period of drought as intense as the one he has been experiencing since June.
He estimates that he loses 20 to 30% of yields between his dead vegetables burned in the sun, and those that are struggling to grow.
"This one, instead of weighing 200 g, it will perhaps only weigh 100 g at harvest," he explains, squeezing the leaves of a dried leek between his fingers.
"I have rarely seen losses as dry as that", blows the market gardener.
And the recent rains do nothing about it.
"As long as it does not rain at least 10 mm of water during the day, it is useless for the crops", assures the farmer.
Report to see in the video at the top of the article.