French people are being encouraged to eat more cheese, after the country's coronavirus outbreak caused sales to melt and left farmers with wasted produce.
Michel Lacoste, the president of the National Council of Appellations of Dairy Origin , told CNN on Thursday that sales had slumped by 60% from the start of the lockdown on March 17 to April 10. He estimated that producers will be left with 5,000 tons of overstock at the end of the pandemic."They changed their habits and turned to basic necessities," he said, leaving the industry facing a"huge loss.
The pandemic has poked holes in a cheese industry so synonymous with the country itself that former President Charles de Gaulle once famously asked how he was meant to govern a country that produced 246 varieties of cheese.Non-essential shops have been shut in France for weeks, since the country entered lockdown in response to its Covid-19 outbreak.
"A massive overstocking of 2,000 tons of cheeses of certified quality and origin was therefore instantly created," the group added."Beyond the risk of causing immense waste, the sustainability of a sector is at stake and this could have major consequences for rural areas, for which this sector is often the only economic activity to be expected."The group added:"Various players [in the industry] have been exposed to a sudden halt in cheese marketing channels.
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