Heavy rainfall causes severe harvest impact and losses for French farmers

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Persistent rainfall in France is reducing soft wheat production, resulting in a high decrease in the overall harvest and substantial losses for individual farmers.

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00:00This year s harvest has been considered as one of the worst in years by French farmers

00:07who are struggling to maintain their fields following storms and strong winds which have

00:13destroyed much of their wheat. Nicolas Payou is the president of the Andres

00:18Chamber of Agriculture and he says they are suffering great losses.

00:23As well as fighting diseases that are affecting their crops, farmers are trying to adapt to

00:42climate change, but they say it's difficult as it is so unpredictable.

00:53On the whole, the loss of French cereal production is estimated at 13%.

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