Apple producers organized punch operations this Saturday all over France, and in particular in Angers, in supermarkets. They denounce the purchasing policy of their productions by supermarkets. They are demanding an increase of 20 euro cents per kilo. Report by Alexis Cécilia-Joseph and Frédéric Grunchec.
This Saturday, January 14, several dozen apple producers from Maine-et-Loire entered the shelves of a large Angevin area.
With inflation, their production costs have exploded, they are waiting for mass distribution “Make the effort to buy the fruit 20 cents more per kilo to offset the additional costs, but we realize that this is not always the case, so we try to get things moving and that’s why that we are here today” explains Sébastien Blanchet,
arborist at Rosiers-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire).
Electricity bills have indeed skyrocketed in recent months.
Our team went to an arborist in Trélazé. The operation of its cold rooms now represents 10% of its production costs. A limited increase because he renegotiated his contract with his energy supplier a year ago, but Jean-Laurent Laval does not know how long the electricity increases will save him. Fruit growers are very worried about the future of their industry.
Every month the equivalent of 40 football pitches of French orchards are uprooted.
►The report by Alexis Cécilia-Joseph, Frédéric Grunchec and Nathalie Saliou
Interventions:
-Sebastien Blanchet
Arborist in Rosiers-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire)
-Lise Timmerman
Arborist in Vion (Sarthe)
-Jean-Laurent Laval
Arborist in Trélazé (Maine-et-Loire)
video length: 01min 59
report near Angers on the mobilization of apple producers
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©Frédéric Grunchec
