Tomatoes, peaches, melons, summer fruits and vegetables were shunned due to rainy weather in France

Bad times for greengrocers and market gardeners. “There, we didn't have any sun, and therefore much less sales, especially on products like melon, watermelon, strawberries,” laments Jean Wiel, a greengrocer in Wambrechies, in the North, on BFMTV. He estimates the decline in his sales between 30 and 40% in recent weeks. “The customers are not there at all,” also notes Louis Thomassin, market gardener at “La Cueillette de Cergy”, in Val-d’Oise. “On products like tomatoes, we know that the hotter it is, the more we sell.” The weather, which has been particularly rainy over most of France in recent weeks, has led to a drop in the consumption of summer fruits and vegetables. “The weather was often cool, gray and unstable during the month of June,” specifies Météo France. Melon production penalized by low sunshine The month was nevertheless “consistent with normal temperatures”, adds the meteorological service. On the other hand, “rainfall was once again in excess” at the national ...