Summer cauliflower: a regional specialty looking for young producers

Published 2020년 8월 7일

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The article highlights the challenges faced by the summer cauliflower industry in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais regions of France due to aging and retiring producers and a lack of interest from the younger generation. Despite the sector's profitability, manual labor requirements and the need for significant water usage during peak times deter young people from joining. This results in a shrinking workforce, despite the industry's contribution to 25% of the market's fruit and vegetable volumes in the summer. The industry's future is uncertain, despite the common market's electronic degressive auctions aimed at providing price clarity to producers.

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The Marché de Phalempin (59), a cooperative of producers in Hauts-de-France, shares most of the production of summer cauliflower with Sipema de Saint-Omer (62). But the industry, lacking in manpower, is weakening year after year with retirements. Will young people take over? If Brittany is known for its winter cauliflowers, the Nord and Pas-de-Calais are the biggest producers of summer cauliflowers, the harvest of which takes place from the end of May to October. © DR In the middle of the summer, activity is in full swing within the Marché de Phalempin cooperative (59). Trucks full of cauliflowers arrive on the docks to drop off the pallets. Others leave the same day to distribute them in supermarkets (large and medium-sized stores). A total of 50 pallets pass through the site every day. Harvesting of summer cauliflower has started promisingly, during the post-containment period. At the end of May, the first heads were collected from Audomarois and Weppes; main production basins ...

Source: Terres et Territoires