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REPORTAGE. Many farmers in western France have reconnected with the small seed of buckwheat, whose history is closely linked to that of Brittany.
By Sylvain Moreau, in Sainte-Anne-sur-Vilaine and Pipriac (Ille-et-Vilaine)
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Lhe buckwheat flour, essential for making buckwheat pancakes – its other name – sold in creperies and markets in Brittany and Navarre, could it have run out due to the war? in Ukraine ? “Not really, because the need for buckwheat in France is well covered by French production, tempers Jérôme Goulet, commercial director in mass distribution and in charge of the development of the buckwheat-related activity within the company Axiane Meunerie. But the impact of the war had an influence on supply and demand, which generated inflation on the price of the seed. »
And for good reason: Russia (49.3%) and Ukraine (5.4%) alone supplied more than half of the world buckwheat market before the start of…
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