date:Apr 15, 2014
costs for producers is about 50 cents''. Two years ago, leeks could be negotiated at 2/kilo! The Manche producers could have supplied the whole national market (an advantage of having mild weather when there is frost in other regions). However, this year the other regions did not experience a cold winter either.
Guy Saint-L, Farming Director of the Agrial Producers Organisation of (primary products: carrots and leeks) says that jobs are threatened and local economy relies on vegetable produc