Drought causes a "collapse" in vegetable production: "Even irrigated, the young plants did not survive".
Cauliflowers, peas or lettuce are suffering from the lack of water and successive heatwaves. The sector is talking about a "catastrophe", particularly on the entire western side of France, while the ability to sow crops for the following seasons is also being hampered.
We haven't written up this one. Le Monde Economie has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.