4pm: European forecasts for apricots & French forecasts for peaches and nectarines
With:
> Santiago Vazquez, Federation of Spanish cooperatives (Spain)
> Elisa Macchi, Director of CSO (Italy)
> Georges Kantzios, ASEPOP Cooperative (Greece)
> Nathalie Bonnet, Domaine des Coteaux (France)
Discussions chaired by Eric Hostalnou, Head of Fruit & Vegetable department at Pyrénées-Orientales Chamber of Agriculture.
5pm: Round Table – “Frost wave: medFEL gives the floor to producers”
The frost episode of April 2021 strongly affected French agriculture.
medFEL gives voice to French and European arboreal productions affected by this frost. Time to make a first inventory, to evoke the current solutions to save what can be saved, and to consider the longer-term future to better protect the orchards. Representatives of the State and the Regions will be invited to debate.
The situation in Europe
With:
> Bruno Darnaud, President of the Economic Governance of Fruits and Vegetables (Gefel) and of the PDO French Peaches and Apricots
> Elisa Macchi, Director of CSO (Italy)
> Sara Ruiz-Chacon, Afrucat (Spain)
> Daniel Sauvaitre, President of the National Association for Apples and Pears
What actions have been taken in France?
> Joël Boyer, Président of the Plum DPO
> Bruno Darnaud, President of the Economic Governance of Fruits and Vegetables (Gefel) and of the PDO French Peaches and Apricots
> Françoise Roch, President of the National Federation of Fruit Producers (FNPF)
> Daniel Sauvaitre, President of the National Association for Apples and Pears
> Patrick Trillon, Chairman of the Fruit and Vegetable specialist council, FranceAgriMer
Discussion chaired by Olivier Masbou, Associate journalist, Socopag press agency.