Behind bucolic landscapes, French agriculture is suffering more and more.
A few figures are enough to set the scene, to translate the malaise that runs through the countryside.
In less than ten years, our agricultural trade balance has gone from a surplus of 6 billion euros to a deficit of 300 million.
Today, our country buys one in two chickens abroad, imports 40% of its vegetables and 60% of its fruit.
This is to say if the French excellence given in spectacle at the Salon de l'agriculture, the annual high mass which opens this Saturday, is only a deceptive facade.
It is far from guaranteeing the food independence that the health crisis has brought up to date more than ever.
Of course, global warming is not out of the question.
The year 2022 was a glaring illustration of this: it dries out the soil, destroys crops, disrupts the seasons, makes harvests and breeding conditions uncertain.
But this worrying phenomenon is not only rampant in France and does not explain…
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