By Jean Cittone
Published yesterday at 4:49 p.m., Updated yesterday at 4:51 p.m.
Many wine growers are forced to sacrifice their vines. DERRICK CEYRAC / AFP
This highly anticipated system will concern up to 9,500 hectares of vines, uprooted against the payment of a premium of 6,000 euros per hectare, subject to validation by the European Commission.
Le Figaro Bordeaux
This is a long-awaited deadline for Bordeaux winegrowers. After long months of negotiations, the window for submitting applications for uprooting Gironde vines will soon open, the prefecture announced on Thursday. Around 9,500 hectares of vines are affected by this procedure.sanitary“, allowing the winegrowers concerned to diversify their production – against the backdrop of a drop in consumption of red wine in France -, and to preventively fight against flavescence ore, a disease which ravages abandoned vineyards. With a premium of €6,000 per hectare, this plan could cost up to 57 million euros.
This large-scale system in Gironde is financed both by the State and by the Bordeaux interprofessional wine council (CIVB). “CIVB assistance concerns wine growers who wish to develop a new agricultural activity», Specifies the Gironde prefecture. State aid concerns “wine growers who wish to stop all agricultural activity“. It is the latter which was notified to the European Commission, and which is still awaiting its green light to be effective. The selected schedule announced Thursday is therefore provisional, “subject to validation of the device» by the Union.
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A “real social plan” requested in 2022
However, the State and the CIVB say “mobilized for the quickest implementation of the system“. Initially scheduled for September, the opening of the online platform to submit a grubbing up request should take place in November. The site will remain open for approximately one month. The harvesting will take place in autumn and winter, then the first payments will take place.end of 2023/beginning of 2024», Finally specifies the prefecture. That is about a year after a historic demonstration by Gironde wine growers in Bordeaux, who took to the streets to demand a “real social plan».
2023-10-13 22:21:57
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