Additionally, Annie Genevard called on the European Agricultural Commissioner to “mobilize Europe’s crisis reserves, in particular to finance the refining of the non-market overstock crisis”.
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The Ministry of Agriculture announced, Monday 24 November, a budget of 130 million euros to support the removal of vines, and called on Brussels to mobilize “European crisis reserve”to try to get French viticulture out of the impasse.
Minister Annie Genevard made her announcement to representatives of the sector on Monday evening in Montpellier, on the eve of the opening of the Sitevi trade fair she was to attend, ten days after a demonstration in Béziers where grape growers in the region expressed their disappointment.
“The government is spending 130 million euros to finance the new definitive tampering plan demanded by the wine profession”, For “rebalancing supply and (from) restoring the viability of struggling farms in the most fragile watersheds”the ministry wrote in a press release.
In addition, Annie Genevard asked the European Agricultural Commissioner, Christophe Hansen, to do this “mobilize European crisis reserves, in particular to finance the resolution of the non-market overstock crisis, especially in cooperative warehouses”.
