France's disappearing orchards

French agriculture is in crisis. Like the milk industry, the fruit-and-vegetable sector is in trouble. The farmers have had enough. Rather than produce at a loss, they are tearing up their orchards. Our reporter Nicolas Ransom shared the everyday lives of these farmers who can no longer make a living.

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by Anonyme - 16/10/2010 - 07:45

the situation is similar here in Slovakia.many farmers were driven out of business.

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I will buy French fruit.

by Theophilus Ghos... - 15/09/2010 - 08:31

Please send your produce to America. I love fruit but I have only had some fresh cherries and some quince this year. Our stores are stuffed to the gills in fruit. Peaches, plums, nectarines. All of them picked green as a gourd and will never ripen. It would be better if we stocked our shelves with wax fruit. They would be just as beautiful and taste the same. What I wouldn't give for a ripe plum, peach or nectarine. I would pay triple the cost of these sour hard impostors. Don't let France go the same way! Fight it with all your might!

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Globalization destroys culture, national farming and business

by Anonyme - 13/09/2010 - 11:55

Globalization also hastens our fall into the abyss due to fossil fuel peak consumption which is causing the global warming and drastic climatic changes colder or warmer. For example in my small town in the USA I find I can buy cheaper milk from almost a thousand miles away. That milk costs us all in the end with the transportation expenses even though it delivers us a cheaper product now. But only 5 miles away there were dairy cow farmers. Now they have been driven out of business. This is despicable. We must get back to regional self sufficiency to protect our regional jobs, businesses, cultures and saving mother earth.

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