PARIS (Reuters) – The French government will lift upper limits on its agriculture catastrophe fund to compensate farmers for frost damage to their crops, Prime Minister Jean Castex told parliament on Tuesday.
Grapevines, fruit trees and many other crops such as rapeseed and sugar beets have sustained major damage due to unusually strong spring frost nationwide.
(Reporting by GV De Clercq, Editing by Dominique Vidalon)
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