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With both feet in his 24 hectares of vines, Bruno Gravino caresses his fine gray mustaches.
He hesitates before starting.
For, soon, not to stop any more:
Five years ago still, one rowed.
But we could live.
It's all over.
We sell at a loss!
We are struggling!”
The fault, according to him, with the unfair competition coming from Spain, which does not respect the same environmental standards as France, with the blessing of the European Union.
Blame it on the taxes on phytosanitary products, which are constantly increasing, up to a third of the price per kilo.
To the fuel bill for his tractor, too, which has more than doubled in recent months.
And the price of real estate, which has more than tripled in ten years.
Without any politicians seeming to care.
“We are more than forgotten, we are abandoned. We can't be heard
,” says this sixty-year-old winegrower, whose blush eventually rose to his cheeks.
So yes, this
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