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Warming: how do arborists cope with climatic hazards?
How to protect your fruit trees against late frosts? This is the big debate of the moment among arborists who do not want to relive the disaster of 2022 and 2023.
(France 2)
How to protect your fruit trees against late frosts? This is the big debate of the moment among arborists who do not want to relive the disaster of 2022 and 2023.
The sky may be blue and the temperatures spring-like, but on Françoise Roch’s farm, we anticipate the slightest bad weather. Friday March 15, she observed that the plum trees were in flower ten days early, so they would be covered with a net against the hail. However, what the operator fears most is frost. In 2021 and 2022, she lost 70% of her harvest. Even today, it has not recovered from this disaster.
Rethinking agricultural aid
According to Françoise Roch, we need to rethink agricultural aid. “Crop insurance is calculated on an average of previous years. As they have been bad since 2021, the more climatic incidents we have, the more our averages will not be good and the less we will insure, because it will not be worth the cut”, she believes. To combat frost, some arborists invest in anti-freeze towers.
