Although the lack of water causes a poor harvest this year, the
sun allowed the fruit to be much sweeter than usual.
In his fifty-year career, this is the first year that Benoît
Lefèvre harvests so few plums. Less than half of last year; usually the
pruniculteur with the beret collects 180 tons. “I watered as if I was in a
desert, but what was really lacking, is the fertilization of flowers on his 8
ha of plum trees – a phenomenon that can’t be explained.
Behind his moustache, Benoît Lefèvre keeps smiling as the
eternal optimist he is. "I'm not whining but rather critical about the
situation," he says. Unlike many of his neighbors, Benoît Lefèvre still has some water
in his pond.
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