Poor year 2019 for the farm France. According to INSEE, the production of the agricultural branch would have fallen by 1.6% in value last year, excluding subsidies. This decline is primarily linked to bad harvests. Due to the drought, wine production fell 14.1% in France, while prices fell by 2%. The turnaround is complete compared to 2018, which had been an exceptional vintage (+ 28.4%). "The vagaries, whether climatic or health, are more and more frequent" , underlines the FNSEA in its press release.
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Added to this is the volatility of world prices. Thus, if the cereal harvest was good in France last year (+ 14.2% in volume) and very dynamic exports, the farmers did not benefit from it in terms of income, because of the fall prices, especially common wheat. A consequence of the abundant harvests worldwide.
Conversely, pig farmers benefited from a spectacular recovery in prices (+ 21.5%). The epidemic
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