Each in turn, two wine leaders in the person of Ludovic Roux and Jean-Marie Fabre, detail the challenges facing the sector in 2023: the president of the cooperative winegrowers of Occitanie Ludovic Roux and Jean-Marie Fabre, at the head independent winegrowers from France. Clarifications with the main players in the sector.
The industry leaders are rolling up their sleeves at the start of the year.
Because after three years of health and climate crisis, inflation is aggravating the difficulties. We must both prepare the wine sector for better performance by giving it the tools to secure it and face up to climatic and economic challenges in order to consolidate its cash flow.
Issues that the national president of independent winegrowers Jean-Marie Fabre faces by brandishing the standard of viticulture, the economic flagship of France.
“Wine must become a great national cause in 2023”.
Just that ! And yet for Jean-Marie Fabre, to the great evils the big words: if the aeronautical sector opens wide the doors of the ministries, the viticulture must be able to do the same: “3rd company of the CAC 40, our economic role is major in the heart of our 66 French wine departments, with our 700,000 jobs and more than 40 billion in turnover”.
At the start of the year with an unfavorable economic situation for economic recovery, the cooperative winegrowers are awaiting the implementation of the measures requested on storage aid, measured distillation and deferred replanting in certain sectors, motivated by the challenges of agroecology and economics.
How to support a 20% increase in charges, the rate estimated at the minimum, without compensation from the government?
Ludovic Roux, president of the cooperators of Occitanie lists dry materials but also fertilizers, gas, electricity: “20% additional charges, it’s huge! The federation of cooperative cellars is working on energy agreements and group purchases”.