The root cause? Expensive French rootstocks

France has many nurseries that provide winegrowers with new vines. These nurseries are now worried that the French vines have become too expensive compared to other European countries. They keep losing market shares. Exports have declined over the past five years. France exported last year 14 million vines. At the same time 12 million were imported.

The French nurseries complain about expensive social charges compared to other European countries and that the French regulations regarding the sanitary standards of the vines are more stringent than the EU standards that other countries use.

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