Faced with soaring energy prices, these farmers will shift or reduce their production

Its greenhouses are spread over two hectares in the plain of Chailly-en-Bière, next to Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne). Benjamin Devos plants tomatoes, cucumbers and strawberries there every January. But today, the market gardener is particularly worried. “When you work with perishable foodstuffs, you are used to uncertainties, he slips. Every year, we play poker: we put 500,000 euros on the table before recovering our function, in particular from the vagaries of the weather. But there, with energy prices added to the rest, we are still a notch above. I don’t know how I’m going to pay my bill…”